Kian Ming Adam Chai
蔡 建 明

This is a breakdown of the constituents, and should apply to most names belonging to Singaporean (or Malaysian) Chinese: last name is Chai (蔡); first name is Kian Ming (建 明); and Christian name is Adam. Note that the first name consists of two words. Some people put a hyphen inbetween, i.e. "Kian-Ming", but I don't. This may cause some confusions, evidently when I'm addressed by "Kian Chai".

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Publications

1. Kian Ming A. Chai 2009 Generalization Errors and Learning Curves for Regression with Multi-task Gaussian Processes NIPS 22
2. Kian Ming A. Chai, Christopher K. I. Williams, Stefan Klanke, Sethu Vijayakumar 2009 Multi-task Gaussian Process Learning of Robot Inverse Dynamics NIPS 21 data
3. Edwin V. Bonilla, Kian Ming A. Chai, Christopher K. I. Williams 2008 Multi-task Gaussian Process Prediction NIPS 20 correction note
4. Christopher K. I. Williams, Kian Ming A. Chai, Edwin V. Bonilla 2007 A Note on Noise-free Gaussian Process Prediction with Separable Covariance Functions and Grid Designs Informatics Research Report, December 2007
5. Kian Ming Adam Chai 2005 Expectation of f-measures: tractable exact computation and some empirical observations of its properties SIGIR 2005: 593-594
6. Kian Ming Adam Chai, Hwee Tou Ng, Hai Leong Chieu 2002 Bayesian Online Classifiers for Text Classification and Filtering Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2002). (pp. 97-104). Tampere, Finland

Notes

1. Kian Ming A. Chai 2009, Feb Some relations between Gaussian process binary classification, Multivariate skew normal, and Maximising correlations.

Software

• umatlab: Wrapper for matrix programming in C++.
• GPML: Gaussian process (ML flavoured) in C++.
• opt2up: Calculates pstops parameters for "optimal" 2-up placements in A4 paper.
• latex_picture: Graphical interface for drawing pictures in latex picture/pict2e environment.

Background

Sep 2006 till now

PhD student, Supervisor: Prof Chris Williams

Jul 2001 to Aug 2006

Member of Technical Staff, Senior Member of Technical Staff, DSO National Laboratories

Nov 1999 to Jun 2001

National Service (full-time), Combat Engineer (Bridging), Singapore

Sep 1998 to Sep 1999

MSc Artificial Intelligence (Non-symbolic), Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh

Oct 1995 to Jun 1998

B.A(Hons) Computer Science, Computer Laboratory; Christ's College, University of Cambridge

Further Back

References

1. Luc Devroye, László Györfi and Gábor Lugosi Based on the Appendix of the textbook: A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition

Interesting Articles

1. D. Hestenes 1992 Mathematical Viruses. Clifford Algebras and their Applications in Mathematical Physics, 1992 (A. Micali et al, Ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
2. Georg Franck 1999 Scientific Communication--A Vanity Fair? Science 1 October 1999: Vol. 286. no. 5437, pp. 53 - 55
3. Marty Tysanner 2008 Response to "Update on Plagiarism Scandal" January 20th, 2008 at 4:25 am
4. Brian Hayes 2001 Third Base American Scientist Vol. 89 no. 6, pp. 490-494
5. Richard Feynman 1966 What is Science? (reprint)The Physics Teacher Vol. 7, issue 6, 1968, pp. 313-320
6. Andrew Gelman 2008 I hate BIC blah blah blah October 23, 2008