Daniel (Dan) Sedra

Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14850
Gates 323
dms422 at cs dot cornell dot edu

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Bio: I am a second year MSc student in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University. I am currently advised by Professor Kilian Weinberger . I am mainly interested in machine learning, specifically neural networks.

I received my BSc in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2014. My undergraduate thesis advisor was Professor William Cohen .

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Work Experience:

• Researcher, Cornell Spring 2015-
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cornell Fall 2014-
• Data Science Summer Fellowship, Georgia Tech Summer 2014
• Mobile Intern, Yahoo! Summer 2013

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Projects:

• Undergraduate Thesis: I worked on new measures of semantic similarity.
• Sentiment Analysis: As part of the Yahoo! QE team I worked to develop a system for analyzing user feedback.

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Teaching Experience:

• CS6780 Advanced Machine Learning, Cornell Spring 2015
• CS4780 Machine Learning, Cornell Fall 2014
• CS15213 Introduction to Computer Systems, CMU Fall 2012