Kristine M. Yu
Associate Professor, Department of LinguisticsUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Integrative Learning Center N422
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
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I am a linguist and a phonetician and phonologist. My primary focus is on the computation of prosody, from the speech signal to grammar and processing. My work integrates diverse approaches, including fieldwork, experiments, formal language theory, and machine learning. Recent language areas of focus include Bole, Samoan, and African American English.
COMP 451: Fundamentals of Machine Learning (Fall 2022, 2023)
COMP 588: Probabilistic Graphical Models (Fall 2019, Winter 2021, 2022, 2023)
COMP 551: Applied Machine Learning (Winter 2020, Fall 2020, 2021)
CPSC 532R (at UBC) : Advanced Topics in AI: Graphical Models (Winter 2018)
Before joining McGill and Mila, I held a similar position at the University of British Columbia.
Before that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Machine Learning Department and the Robotics Institute, at the Carnegie Mellon University.
There, I worked with Barnabás Póczos and Jeff Schneider, and
I was also affiliated with Auton Lab and McWilliams Center for Cosmology.
I received my M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, as a member of Alberta Ingenuity Center for Machine Learning,
now amii, working with Russ Greiner.
During this time, I also spent a few months at Frey Lab, at the University of Toronto. I received my B.Sc. from Sharif University.
A more formal bio is here.