*10.08.2009* Slides from our recent presentation at Grace Hopper 2009 titled Tips, Tricks and Software for Keeping Research Organized

Welcome

I am currently a 6th (final!) year Ph.D. student in the computer science department of Tufts University. My area of research is machine learning/data mining. My advisor is Carla Brodley.

Research

I currently focus on 1) mitigating the effects of class noise in supervised learning tasks, and 2) detecting anomalies that might be indicative of new, interesting phenomena in photometric time series data from the astrophysics domain.

I apply my research to real-world problems, and currently have collaborations with researchers at Tufts' Dept. of Civil Engineering, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Here is my CV and a list of my publications.

Professional Experience and Education

I received my B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997. Shortly thereafter, I worked for internet media company CNET Networks in San Francisco first as an HTML/Javascript producer, and then as a software engineer. In 2002, I transferred to the company's Cambridge, MA office and enrolled part-time in the post-baccalaureate program in the Tufts Computer Science department. In 2004, I enrolled full-time in the Ph.D. program, and earned my M.S. in Computer Science in 2006.

Graduate Coursework

Algorithms - Theory of Computation - Advanced Algorithms - Artificial Intelligence - Machine Learning - Operating Systems - Probability in Computer Science - Introduction to Computer Security - Statistics - Time Series Forecasting and Analysis (at Boston University) - Foundations of Machine Learning - Computational Learning Theory

Teaching

In Fall 2006, I was the teaching assistant for Professor Alva Couch's Operating Systems (COMP 111) class. I also serve as a graduate student tutor and mentor to undergraduate students in the Data Structures course.

I also organized some UNIX/shell/emacs and programming/debugging workshops during Spring 2007 to teach our undergrads some vital skills that are not formally taught in class. You can find the materials from those workshops here.

Personal

I'm involved in the Women in Computer Science group at Tufts. You can also check out my personal website to get a sense of my dubious taste in film, books and music.

Contact

Feel free to contact me at urebbapr at cs dot tufts dot edu if you have questions about my research.

Useful Links

Check out my links page (which I'll hopefully update soon)...