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BEN RUBINSTEIN
CURRICULUM VITAEView my latest Curriculum Vitae (pdf).
COURSEWORK
My PhD studies are based in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, with a Designated Emphasis in Communication, Computation and Statistics. I am majoring in Artificial Intelligence and minoring in Statistics and Computer Science Theory. I have taken the following courses at Berkeley, completing my course requirements:
- Spring 2007: Convex Optimization & Approximation, Theoretical Statistics (B)
- Fall 2006: Teaching Electrical Engineering, Theoretical Statistics (A)
- Spring 2006: Advanced Topics in Learning and Decision Making, Great Algorithms
- Fall 2005: Advanced Topics in Computer Sciences, Randomness and Computation, Transfer Learning
- Spring 2005: Combinatorial Algorithms and Data Structures, Probability Theory (B)
- Fall 2004: Nonlinear & Convex Optimization, Probability Theory (A), Statistical Learning Theory
- Teaching at Berkeley:
- Fall 2006 CS70 'Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory' (CS Div - Fresh/Soph Ugrad) Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) under Christos Papadimitriou and Umesh Vazirani [section page|course homepage|UCB catalog entry]
- Teaching at Melbourne:
- Semester 2 2003 431-469 'Multimedia Signal Processing' (EEE Dept - Senior Ugrad) Demonstrator-in-charge under Marimuth Palaniswami [UM handbook entry]
- Semester 1 2003 433-303 'Artificial Intelligence' (CSSE Dept - Junior Ugrad) Teaching Assistant (TA) under Chris Leckie [UM handbook entry]
- Semester 1 2003 433-521 'Algorithms and Complexity (CSSE Dept - Freshman Grad) TA-in-charge under Linda Stern [homepage]
MEDIA ATTENTION
- The Australian Undergraduate Students' Computing Conference:
- Sue Slamen and Barry Clarke (presenters) and Suresh Gnasegarah, Ioanna Ioannou, Maurice Ling, Ben Rubinstein and Vanessa Smith (interviewees), (half-hour interview as part of a 13-part educational radio series for broadcast over the Asia-Pacific region), SMART SOCIETIES, ABC Radio National, 2003.
- IEEE Computer Society Lance Stafford Larson Outstanding Student Paper Award and the paper Evolving Quantum Circuits using Genetic Programming, 2002:
- Wes Turnbull (presenter) and Ben Rubinstein (interviewee), Software evolution (interview for broadcast by community radio stations Australia-wide), SCI FILES, CSIRO National Science Radio, April 2002.
- Profile Talent for the things that work in life by Jenny Sinclair, The Age Next (simultaneously in the Sydney Morning Herald), 9 April 2002.
- Dig it, man by Blanche Clark, Herald Sun Learn, 19 March 2002.
- Quantum leaper wins tech award by Diana Thorp, The Australian IT, 19 March 2002.
- Darwin's theory advances quantum computing by Jason Major, UniNews, 28 February 2002.
- Lucent Technologies Global Science Scholarship, 2000:
- Scholarship launches Ben on the fast track, UniNews, 14 August 2000.
- Scholarship winner tackles big questions by Jenny Sinclair, The Age I.T, 4 July 2000.
- Bell and whistles for student trio by Patrick Lawnham, The Australian Higher Education, 28 June 2000.
- Lucent Technologies awards its Global Science Scholars from Australia, Lucent Technologies Press Release, 26 June 2000.
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