Adam Pocock
PhD Student/Teaching Assistant
Room number: Kilburn Building, G33
Email: apocock * a t * cs.man.ac.uk
I'm currently a PhD student at the School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester, UK. I'm a member of both the Advanced Processor Technologies (APT) group and the Machine Learning & Optimisation (MLO) group here at Manchester. I'm also a TA and run Labs and Examples classes for Undergraduates.
Academic Background
I started the PhD in October 2008, supervised by Dr. Gavin Brown and Dr. Mikel Luján. Before that I graduated from the MSc in Advanced Computer Science in 2008, and a BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics in 2007 both at the University of Manchester. My MSc thesis was about developing new feature selection techniques using information theory, and my BSc project was developing a 3D animation system.
Current Research
I'm a member of the Intelligent Thread-Level Speculation (iTLS) project at Manchester, in collaboration with a team at the University of Edinburgh both funded by an EPSRC grant. The iTLS project is working on using Machine Learning to drive Thread-Level Speculation to automatically parallelise serial programs. In Manchester our work focuses on parallelising Object-Oriented programs in Java and building a TLS system in the Jikes RVM.
My current research intrests are in online ensemble learning, feature selection using information theory, and Markov Blanket discovery algorithms. I'm also interested in how to apply these techniques to datasets with millions of examples, as generated by our TLS framework.