I am a
software engineer at Google
Pittsburgh. I received my Ph.D.
from the Robotics
Institute at
the School
of Computer Science in Carnegie
Mellon University. My
advisor was Geoffrey
J. Gordon. I
was a member of the SELECT Lab,
which is headed by Geoffrey Gordon and Carlos
Guestrin.
I used to work with Andrew
Moore, and I was also affiliated
with the AUTON
Lab. See my research page for a list of publications.
I am interested in efficient inference, learning and model selection for low-dimensional representations of dynamical systems, including latent variable models and predictive state representations, from high-dimensional data. The algorithms I work on require tools from data mining, statistical machine learning, convex optimization, matrix analysis and control theory. I apply my research to sequential data modeling and prediction problems in robot cognition, computer vision and biosurveillance. Recently, I have also been applying my work to audio event detection and robot motion planning.
Before graduate school, I studied Computer Science, Mathematics and Economics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where I worked with Gaurav Sukhatme at the Robotics and Embedded Systems Lab. Prior to that, I went to school in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. My family is originally from northern India, however, and my native language is Urdu.
Email:
siddiqi at google dot com
I am interested in efficient inference, learning and model selection for low-dimensional representations of dynamical systems, including latent variable models and predictive state representations, from high-dimensional data. The algorithms I work on require tools from data mining, statistical machine learning, convex optimization, matrix analysis and control theory. I apply my research to sequential data modeling and prediction problems in robot cognition, computer vision and biosurveillance. Recently, I have also been applying my work to audio event detection and robot motion planning.
Before graduate school, I studied Computer Science, Mathematics and Economics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where I worked with Gaurav Sukhatme at the Robotics and Embedded Systems Lab. Prior to that, I went to school in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. My family is originally from northern India, however, and my native language is Urdu.
Email:
siddiqi at google dot com