Chun-Nam
Yu
Contact
Information:
5138 Upson Hall
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
Email: cnyu AT cs.cornell.edu
Office: (607) 255-9201
About me:
I am a third-year Ph.d. student at the Dept. of Computer Science at
Cornell University. My advisor is Thorsten Joachims.
Prior to coming to
Cornell, I spent three enjoyable years at Wadham College, Oxford,
earning a BA degree in Mathematics and Computer Science.
Here is my CV.
Research
Interests:
I am interested in machine learning and computational biology, in
particular problems related to Support Vector
Machines, Structured Output Learning, Statistical Consistency
of Large Margin Methods, Sequence Alignment, Homology Modeling of
Proteins
Publications:
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Support Vector Training of Protein Alignment Models (pdf)
C.-N. Yu, T.
Joachims, R. Elber, J. Pillardy
Proceeding
of the International Conference in Research in Computational
Biology (RECOMB), 2007
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Training Protein
Threading Models using Structural SVMs (pdf)
C.-N. Yu, T.
Joachims, R. Elber
ICML
Workshop on Learning in Structured Output Spaces, 2006