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Mark Culp
Assistant Professor

423 Hodges Hall
Department of Statistics
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6330
Morgantown, WV 26506

Phone: 304 293-3607 (Ext. 1059)
Fax:      304 293-2272
Email:   mculp@stat.wvu.edu


Curriculum Vitae


Education:

  • 2002-2007 : PhD in Statistics, University of Michigan. Advisor: George Michailidis
  • 1997-2001 : BS Dual Major in Mathematics and Computer Science, Canisius College.

Research Interests:

  • Statistical Computing
  • Statistical Machine Learning
  • Bioinformatics

Publications:

  • Culp M., Michailidis G."A co-training algorithm for multi-view data with applications in data fusion." Journal of Chemometrics. To Appear. 2009. [pdf][pkg]
  • Culp M., Michailidis G, Johnson K."On Multi-view Learning with Additive Models." Annals of Applied Statistics. 3(1):292--318, 2009. [pdf]
  • Culp, M., Michailidis G. "An Iterative Algorithm for Extending Learners to a Semi-supervised Setting." Journal of Computational Graphics and Statistics. 17(3):1--27. 2008. [pdf][doc][code]
  • Culp, M., Michailidis G. "Graph-based semi-supervised learning." IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 30(1):174--179, 2008. [pdf] [pkg]
  • Culp, M., Michailidis G., Johnson K. "ada: An R Package for Stochastic Boosting." Journal of Statistical Software. 17(2), 2006. [pdf][pkg]

Other:

  • Culp, M. "Multi-view Learning with Additive Models on Graphs." University of Michigan Doctorial Thesis. 2007. [pdf]

Software:

  • spa --This site contains information about the implementation for the Sequential Predictions Algorithm.
  • cftf --This site contains the co-FTF algorithm.
  • ada--This site contains information about an R package for performing discrete boost, real boost, and gentle boost using both exponential and logistic loss.

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