James Sharpnack

Ph.D. Student

Machine Learning Department, Statistics Department
Carnegie Mellon University

Email: jsharpna(AT)stat.cmu.edu


RESEARCH: I have worked on exploiting structure for statistical estimation and pattern localization. Currently, I am working on optimal design and active learning for Ising and infection models, structured sparsity, and density estimation over large graphs. My advisors are Aarti Singh and Alessandro Rinaldo.

THESIS PROPOSAL: Graph Structured Statistical Inference

BIO: I am currently a Ph.D student in Machine Learning and Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. I have a masters in Statistics from CMU and bachelors in Math and Physics from the Ohio State University.


PUBLICATIONS:
Detecting activations over graphs using spanning tree wavelet bases (arXiv)
J. Sharpnack, A. Krishnamurthy, and A. Singh, submitted for publication, 2012.
Changepoint detection over graphs with the spectral scan statistic (arXiv)
J. Sharpnack, A. Rinaldo, and A. Singh, submitted for publication, 2012.
Variance function estimation in high-dimensions (pdf)
M. Kolar, and J. Sharpnack, International Conference of Machine Learning, ICML 2012, Accepted with Oral Presentation.
Sparsistency of the edge lasso over graphs (pdf)
J. Sharpnack, A. Rinaldo, and A. Singh, AIStats (JMLR WCP), 22:1028–1036, 2012.
Identifying graph-structured activation patterns in networks (pdf)
J. Sharpnack, and A. Singh, Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2010, Accepted with Oral Presentation.