Tomer Levinboim
Tomer Levinboim
Computer Science PhD Candidate
e-mail: firstname dot lastname at usc dot edu


M.Sc Tel Aviv University (2010)
B.A. IDC (2004).
USC
TAU
IDC

I am a third year Ph.D. student at the Viterbi School of Engineering,
USC working with Prof. Fei Sha in the field of Machine Learning.
I am interested in optimization, kernel learning and speech.

Office Hours:
Wed, 10am-12pm. SAL 211.

Latest News
2012 - CSCI-596, Best Poster runner up with Sanjay Purushotham: Two Parallel Solvers for LASSO.
2012 - TAing CSCI-567, Machine Learning.
2012 - UCSC Machine Learning Summer School
2011 - Best demonstration award at AAMAS 2011 for "The Social Ultimatum Game and Adaptive Agents"
2011 - Summer internship at Google, Irvine.

Research
Learning the Kernel Matrix with Low-Rank Multiplicative Shaping
Tomer Levinboim, Fei Sha, AAAI 2012.
paper

Learning and Evaluating Human-Like NPC Behaviors in Dynamic Games
Yu-Han Chang, Rajiv Maheswaran, Tomer Levinboim, Vasudev Rajan, AIIDE 2011
paper

The Social Ultimatum Game
Yu-Han Chang, Tomer Levinboim, and Rajiv Maheswaran
NIPS 2010, "Decision Making with Multiple Imperfect Decision Makers" Workshop
paper

Provable Unlinkability against Traffic Analysis with Low Message Overhead
Ron Berman, Amos Fiat, Marcin Gomulkiewicz, Marek Klonowski,
Miroslaw Kutylowski, Tomer Levinboim, Amnon Ta-Shma
Pending. Submitted to Journal Of Cryptology.
abstract | paper

Master Thesis: Partition exchange and anonymous communication on sparse graphs
Tomer Levinboim (under the supervision of Prof. Amnon Ta-Shma)
Thesis

Inverse Computer Graphics: Parametric Comics Creation from 3D Interaction
Ariel Shamir, Michael Rubinstein, Tomer Levinboim
IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Volume 26, number 3, 30-38, 2006
abstract | paper

Teaching
TA: Amnon Ta-Shma's Electronic Voting Workshop [2008, 2009]
Grader: Muli Safra's Computational Complexity (see our group) [2008, 2009]

I also volunteered in a community center teaching kids "Computer Science Unplugged".
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