Research Interests

  • Statistical machine learning
  • Programming languages
  • Algorithms and data structures

Publications

  • Deflation Methods for Sparse PCA. (pdf, poster)
    Lester Mackey.
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 21. December 2008.

  • Fault-tolerant Typed Assembly Language. (pdf)
    Frances Perry, Lester Mackey, George A. Reis, Jay Ligatti, David I. August, and David Walker.
    ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). June 2007.
    Joint winner of the PLDI 2007 Best Paper Award.
    Selected for SIGPLAN CACM Research Highlights, September 2008.

  • Static Typing for a Faulty Lambda Calculus. (pdf)
    David Walker, Lester Mackey, Jay Ligatti, George Reis, and David August.
    ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). September 2006.

  • Participatory Design with Proxies: Developing a Desktop-PDA System to Support People with Aphasia. (pdf)
    Boyd-Graber, J., Nikolova, S., Moffatt, K., Kin, K., Lee, J., Mackey, L., Tremaine, M., and Klawe, M.
    Proc. of ACM CHI 2006. April 2006.

Projects

  • Anomaly Detection for Asynchronous and Incomplete Data.
    Joint work with John Duchi and Fabian Wauthier.
    Advanced Topics in Computer Systems (CS 262A, E. Brewer). December 2008.

  • Scalable Dyadic Kernel Machines.
    Advanced Topics in Learning and Decision Making (CS 281B, P. Bartlett). May 2008.

  • Latent Dirichlet Markov Random Fields for Semi-supervised Image Segmentation and Object Recognition.
    Statistical Learning Theory (CS 281A, M. Jordan) and Computer Vision (CS 280, J. Malik). December 2007.

  • IDV Pocket Placer: Fast and Flexible Circuit Cell Placement.
    Intel Strategic CAD Labs, Integrated Design and Verification Team. Summer 2004.