Chris Tanner
UCLA Computer Science Department - Graduate Student
 
About
I was reared in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia and went to college at Florida Tech.  My Bachelor degrees were in Computer Science and Applied Math.  I moved out to California in May 2007 to intern at Google and start graduate school at UCLA.  I had dreamt of living in California since I was 10, and it's been an amazing time so far.

My main passions are photography, art, writing, playing baseball, weight lifting, computer science, and mathematics.
Website
My main website is www.chriswtanner.com
Fall 2007 (1st Quarter)
cs201 (seminar)
cs495 (t.a. seminar)
cs143 (networking)
cs246 (web information management)
Winter 2008 (2nd Quarter)
cs201 (seminar)
cs249 (data mining)
cs262a (reasoning with partial beliefs)
cs161 (teacher's assistant for a.i.)
Spring 2008 (3rd Quarter)
cs201 (seminar)
cs263a (language and thought)
cs181 (formal languages and automata theory)
cs 33 (teacher's assistant for assembly)
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Contact
christanner [at] ucla [dot] edu
Resume
View a pdf version of my resume.  [jpg here].
Academics
I am a Master's student with a focus in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. My Master's project will likely concern NLP.  My advisor is Dr. Adnan Darwiche.
Papers
Accelerating Artificial Neural Network Learning via Weight Predictions; April 2005
Improving Web Personalization via User Interest Hierarchy and Scoring Techniques; Dec 2006
Understanding Pure Social Networks: Structure, Connectivity, and Patterns of Interests; Nov 2007
Social Networks: Finding Highly Similar Users and Their Inherent Patterns; Feb 2008
Utilizing NLP Conceptual Dependencies to Infer Meaning of “Dashed Hopes”; May 2008