Sabbatical Report

Min-Yen KanJuly 2010

IrvineIrvine

Death ValleyDeath Valley

Zion / Bryce

Canyon

Zion / Bryce

Canyon

Las Vegas

Las Vegas

Bay AreaBay Area

San DiegoSan

Diego

L.A.L.A.

Drove about 5000 mi in 30 days.For reference see SG in bottom left.

Grand CanyonGrand

Canyon

Sabbatical

• 3 months in 2009, 6 months in 2010• April – May 2010: hosting family• Spent most of 2010 working on your papers and

writing proposals• Interacting with various PIs in UCI– Sharad Mehrotra: Data cleaning toolkit– Nalini Venkatsubramanian: Duke-NUS text mining

proposal– Ramesh Jain: Personal Photo summarization* Chen Li: TASTIER toolkit for FC(N)

Sharad Mehrotra

• PhD students: Pouria Pirzadeh, Rabia Nuray-Turan

• To create a toolkit for data cleaning that can capture workflows for cleaning

• Plan to have this optimizable for later learning

Nalini Venkatsubramanian

• Wrote joint proposal with NUS-Duke PI Ricardo Pietrobon

• To do text mining of clinical articles and then disseminate this information to appropriate parties

• Nalini is working on dissemination portion

Ramesh Jain

• PhD student: Pinaki Singha• To create a personal photographic dataset for

community study

Baby on board

• Alicia and I are expecting a baby boy in Sep!