Christopher H. Lin (林懷璿)
MS, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, 2013
BA, Computer Science, Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 2011
MS, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, 2013
BA, Computer Science, Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 2011
About Me
I am a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering
at the University of Washington. I am
advised by Dan Weld and
Mausam. My primary research
interests are in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
I research probabilistic planning and reinforcement learning techniques guided by applications in crowdsourcing. In particular, I am interested in creating tools that non-experts can use to build intelligent adaptive systems that exploit the different strengths of machines (crunching numbers, optimizing objective functions) and humans (flash judgments) to optimally (with respect to a cost/quality tradeoff) complete tasks.
In my free time, I play the violin. I was a member of the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra as an undergraduate, and now I am a part of the UW Symphony Orchestra. I most enjoy the works of late romantic/early 20th century Russian and German composers (Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Mahler, R. Strauss, Brahms, etc). I also like Beethoven. I've performed Tchaikovsky's 5th in Carnegie Hall under Benjamin Zander, and after experiencing the amazing acoustics, I think that playing/listening inside Carnegie Hall should be on everyone's bucket list. If I had to pick a favorite symphony, I would say Mahler's 3rd. Not only is it amazingly beautiful, it was the last symphony that I performed with the UCBSO, and holds significant sentimental value. I like to keep a list of all the orchestral repertoire that I have played.
Classes
I have taken the following graduate courses:- CS281A (Berkeley, Autumn 2010): Statistical Learning Theory emphasizing Graphical Models
- CS294-67 (Berkeley, Spring 2011): Sequential Decisions: Planning and Reinforcement Learning
- STAT260 (Berkeley, Spring 2011): Finite Markov Information-Exhange Processes
- CSE521 (UW, Autumn 2011): Algorithms
- CSE505 (UW, Winter 2012): Concepts of Programming Languages
- CSE544 (UW, Spring 2012): Databases
- CSE550 (UW, Autumn 2012): Systems for All
- CSE599C1 (UW, Winter, 2013): Machine Learning/Statistics for Big Data
Teaching
- Spring 2011: CS61A (Berkeley)
- Fall 2010: CS61A (Berkeley)
- Summer 2009: CS61A (Berkeley)
Publications
Refereed Conference Papers
- Christopher H. Lin, Mausam, and Daniel S. Weld. "Crowdsourcing Control: Moving Beyond Multiple Choice." In Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI). Catalina Island, CA, USA. Aug 2012.
Acceptance rate: 31%
[PDF] [Supplementary Materials] - Christopher H. Lin, Mausam, and Daniel S. Weld. "Dynamically Switching between Synergistic Workflows for Crowdsourcing." In Proceedings of the 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Toronto, ON, Canada. July 2012.
Accepted for both oral and poster presentation
Acceptance rate: 26%
[PDF] [Talk]
Refereed Workshop Papers
- Christopher H. Lin, Mausam, and Daniel S. Weld. "Dynamically Switching between Synergistic Workflows for Crowdsourcing." (An Extended Abstract). In Human Computation Workshop at AAAI (HCOMP). Toronto, ON, Canada. July 2012.
[PDF] - Christopher H. Lin, Mausam, and Daniel S. Weld. "Crowdsourcing Control: Moving Beyond Multiple Choice." (An Extended Abstract). In Human Computation Workshop at AAAI (HCOMP). Toronto, ON, Canada. July 2012.
[PDF] [Talk] - Daniel S. Weld, Eytan Adar, Lydia Chilton, Raphael Hoffman, Eric Horvitz, Mitchell Koch, James Landay, Christopher H. Lin, Mausam. "Personalized Online Education -- A Crowdsourcing Challenge." In Human Computation Workshop at AAAI (HCOMP). Toronto, ON, Canada. July 2012.
[PDF]
Conference Posters
- Christopher H. Lin, Mausam, and Daniel S. Weld. "Dynamically Switching between Synergistic Workflows for Crowdsourcing." ICAPS Doctoral Consortium. Atibaia, Sao Paulo, Brazil. June 2012.
[PDF] - Christopher Lin and Stuart Russell. "Travel Time Corrections via Local Regression." Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty: Science and Technology. Vienna, Austria. 8-10 June 2011.
[PDF] - J.Y. Luo, J.S. Chen, M. Vazquez, C. Lin, A.M. Chen and R.K. Sachs. "Crossover Breakpoint Detection With High Density SNP Markers in Three Generation Tri-Trio Pedigrees." Biomedical Computation at Stanford. Stanford, CA, USA. 7 Nov 2009.