ML and Stats People on Twitter

I started using the social, “micro-blogging” service Twitter in February this year simply because I had been seeing so much commentary about it — both good and bad. Since then, I’ve posted 800+ updates, amassed over 100 followers and follow nearly that many myself.

What has surprised me about Twitter is how many people I have found on there who are active, or at least interested, in machine learning and statistics. The day-to-day discussions, questions, advice and pointers I’ve got via Twitter have been illuminating and fun.

In an effort to get to know some of these people a bit better I followed the links they provided in their respective profiles to see what they had to say about themselves. The descriptions below are based only on those links as I don’t find Google-stalking very friendly.

So, in no particular order, here they are:

Students

Tim Danford — @arthegall
A computer science Ph.D. student at MIT
Mark James Adams — @mja
”I am a student of quantitative genetics and a temperamental psychologist”
Dave Warde-Farley — @dwf
Computer science Masters student at Toronto working in machine learning
Amir massoud Farahmand — @SoloGen
Ph.D. student looking at manifold learning (amongst other things) at the University of Alberta. Runs the blog thesilog.
Markus Weimer — @markusweimer
Graduate student working on ”applications of machine learning to eLearning”. Also runs a blog
Ryan Rosario — @DataJunkie
Statistics and computer science graduate student.
A.M. Santos — @ansate
Maths and statistics graduate student.
Neal Richter — @nealrichter
Working on ‘Theory of Genetic Algorithms’. Also runs the blog aicoder
Paul Rodrigues — @paulrodrigues
Ph.D student of Computational Linguistics at Indiana University
Sérgio Nunes — @ssn
PhD student in web information retrieval at the University of Porto
Paul Ogilvie — @pogil
Graduate student at CMU and principal scientist at mSpoke

Non-students

Brendan O’Connor — @brendan642
Research assistant in NLP at Stanford and consultant at Dolores Labs
Daniel Tunkelang — @dtunkelang
Chief scientist at the information retrieval company Endeca and owner of the blog The Noisy Channel
Jason Adams — @ealdent
Computational linguist work on sentiment analysis. Runs the blog The Mendicant Bug
Mikio Braun — @mikiobraun
Post-doc at Technische Universität Berlin and a machine learning blogger at Marginally Interesting
Daniel Lemire — @lemire
Professor of computer science at the University of Quebec at Montreal and blogger
Jason H. Moore — @moorejh
Professor of Genetics, Director of Bioinformatics at Dartmouth Medical School. Works on the Multi-factor Dimensionality Reduction software MDR and blogs at Epistasis
Pete Skomoroch — @peteskomoroch
Director of analytics at Juice Analytics and Data Wrangling blogger
Alex Smola — @smolix
Principal Researcher at Yahoo! Research and ex-colleague of mine at NICTA and the ANU a.k.a. “Mr. Kernel”
John D. Cook — @johndcook
Statistician (amongst other things) that runs the blog The Endeavour
Jason Morton — @jasonmorton
Post-doc at Stanford researching the geometry of statistical models and algorithms in statistical learning theory
Abdur Chowdhury — @abdur
Chief scientist at Twitter and researcher in sentiment analysis and information retrieval

If you are not on this list but think you should be, leave a comment below and I’ll update this list. Conversely, if I’ve put you on this list and you don’t wish to be associated with these sorts of people, leave a comment or send me an email and I’ll remove you.

Of course, feel free to follow me if you’d like to keep up with what I’m doing.

Updates

Mark Reid 16 January 2009 Canberra, Australia