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CV | Resume 		Mick Thomure
Doctoral Student
Contact Information
Education
Research Interests
Current Projects
Past Projects
Publications

Contact Information

Computer Science Department
Portland State University
P.O. Box 751
Portland, OR 97201

Email: thomure@cs.pdx.edu
Phone: (503) 725-4059

Education

  • In Progress: PhD in Computer Science, Portland State University, Portland, OR.
  • BS in Computer Science, Spring 2006, Portland State University, Portland, OR.
    CS Dept Homepage | PSU Homepage

Research Interests

Scalable, data-driven methods for building knowledge representations from the web.

In particular:
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing

Current Projects

CBIR: Refining Image Search with Content-Based Image Analogies. Spring '06 - Present
This work is a sub-project of Professor Mitchell's "Perception and Analogy-Making in Visual Understanding". The purpose of this research is to extend earlier work in analogy-making to the problem of Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR). In particular, we will build an image analogy engine by extending Mitchell and Hofstadter's Copycat system.
In the Spring of 2008, I presented our results thus far during my research proficiency exam. More Info | Dr. Mitchell's Current Projects

Past Projects

Coevolution: Studying the effectiveness and dynamics of coevolutionary learning. Fall '04 - Summer '06
The purpose of this work is to better understand the characteristics of this adaptive algorithm which distinguish it from related techniques such as resource sharing. In particular, the effect of using spatial orientation on the speed and efficacy of searching a hypothesis space is being explored. This work is being performed as an undergraduate RA for Professor Melanie Mitchell.
More Info | Dr. Mitchell's Homepage | Dr. Mitchell's Current Projects
MozTorch: Bringing machine learning to the Mozilla community. Spring '05 - Summer '05
This project has been graciously funded by Google through their Summer of Code program.
Project Homepage | SoC Homepage
Sensnet: The PSU Sensor Network Project. Spring '04 - Summer '04
This work was performed as an undergraduate research project with the goal of developing remote sensing applications using networks of wireless motes. The project mentors where Professor Suresh Singh and his graduate research assistant Julie Lee.
Project Homepage | Dr. Singh's Homepage
PSAM: Applying machine learning to spam recognition. Fall '01 - Fall '03
The goal if this project has been to contribute machine learning code and benchmark corpora to the open-source community, in particular those working on spam filtering. The project has developed a C library of useful machine learning algorithms, and presented an empirical comparison of those algorithms at the USENIX Conference.
Project Homepage | USENIX Paper
PSU Intelligent Robotics Lab: Electric Horse Project. Fall '00 - Spring '01
Participated as mentor in a project that brought high school students into the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Portland State. The goal of this project was to teach students about core electrical and computer engineering concepts through the development of a robotic horse that can walk in the Rose Parade.
Project Homepage | Dr. Perkowski's Homepage

Publications

  1. Mitchell, M., Thomure, M., and Williams, N. L. The role of space in the success of coevolutionary learning. In: Proceedings of Artificial Life X: Tenth Annual Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2006. URL: http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~thomure/MitchellEtAlAlifeX.pdf.
  2. Massey, B., Thomure, M., Budrevich, R., and Long, S. Learning spam: Simple techniques for freely-available software. In: USENIX Annual Technical Conference, FREENIX Track, 2003. URL: http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~thomure/learning04massey.pdf.