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Dept of Electrical Engineering
1312 S.W. Mudd
500 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027

Job Skills	Software design and implementation in Java (including JNI, Swing, and Audio libraries), Matlab, C/C++, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Scheme. Unix/Linux system administration Facility with MySQL, Rails, MS Windows, LaTeX, Emacs, CSound.
Education	Columbia University Expected Graduation June, 2009 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Presidential Fellow MS in Electrical Engineering, February, 2006 Pursuing PhD in Electrical Engineering Graduate research assistant for Professor Dan Ellis since September, 2004 Related coursework: Bayesian Data Analysis, Detection / Estimation Theory, Advanced Machine Learning, Computational Imaging, Speech Recognition (Complete listing)
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduated June 2004 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering GPA: 4.9/5 Related Coursework: Audio Processing by Humans and Machines, Machine Vision, Applied Probability, The Human Intelligence Enterprise, Introduction to Communication, Control, and Signal Processing (Complete listing)
Publications	An EM algorithm for localizing multiple sound sources in reverberant environments. M. Mandel, D. Ellis, and T. Jebara. NIPS, December 2006. Support Vector Machine Active Learning for Music Retrieval. M. Mandel, G. Poliner, and D. Ellis. Multimedia Systems, May 2006, Pages 1-11. Distributed Occlusion Reasoning for Tracking with Nonparametric Belief Propagation. E. Sudderth, M. Mandel, W. Freeman, and A. Willsky. Proceedings of NIPS 2004. Visual Hand Tracking Using Nonparametric Belief Propagation. E. Sudderth, M. Mandel, W. Freeman, and A. Willsky. MIT LIDS Technical Report 2603, May 2004. Presented at 2004 CVPR Workshop on Generative Model Based Vision.
Pertinent Work Experience	Owl Multimedia, Co-founder, Dir. Technology Mar - Sep 2006 Owl Multimedia's music search allows users to find music that sounds similar to the music they already like. Designed and implemented client- and server-side feature extraction. Managed two developers on design and implementation of main site. Administered and maintained database and web servers.
	Bose Corporation June - August 2004 uMusic(TM) digitally stores and organizes your CDs. It's like your own personal DJ. Conducted listening survey studying perceptual and emotional reactions to music. Prototyped machine listening for uMusic(TM) system using survey data. MIT AI Lab under Prof Bill Freeman February 2003 - June 2004 Nonparametric Belief Propagation (NBP) extends particle filtering to the more general visual problems that graphical models can describe. Built an NBP-based hand/finger tracker. Coathored two papers (see publications). Wrote Matlab Mex code and C++ class for an NBP library, including parallelization. MIT MediaLab: Music, Mind, and Machine Group June 2002 - June 2004 Run by Professor Barry Vercoe, the Music, Mind, Machine Group develops new audio technologies ranging from automatic sensing of features in existing audio content to extremely compact representations of sound for efficient transmission and control in a networked future Developed analysis-by-synthesis approach to transcription using midi piano. Explored algorithms for finding song structure via STFT frame similarity.

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