Katherine Ellis

kellis @ ucsd . edu

Curriculum Vitae




I am a third year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

My research interests are in machine learning with applications to physical activity recognition (Transdicipinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (TREC)), context awareness and music information retrieval(Computer Audition Laboratory). My advisor is Gert Lanckriet.

Education

• [in progress] Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering (Intelligent Systems, Robotics and Control), University of California San Diego.
• M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering (Intelligent Systems, Robotics and Control), University of California San Diego, 2012.
• B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2010. (Summa Cum Laude)

Publications

• [submitted for review] K. Ellis, E. Coviello, & G. Lanckriet. A Bag of Systems Representation for Music Auto-tagging. IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing.
• K. Ellis, E. Coviello, & G. Lanckriet. Semantic Annotation and Retrieval of Music Using a Bag of Systems Representation. ISMIR 2011. Miami, FL. October 24 - 28, 2011.

Hobbies

• Running, Triathlon