About

I am a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department, working with Professor Daphne Koller as part of the AI Lab.

Selected Publications

• Shape-Based Object Localization for Descriptive Classification.
  Geremy Heitz, Gal Elidan, Benjamin Packer and Daphne Koller.
  Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2008
  [ PDF ]



• Convex Point Estimation using Undirected Bayesian Transfer Hierarchies.
  Gal Elidan, Benjamin Packer, Geremy Heitz and Daphne Koller.
  Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2008.
  [ PDF | PPT ]



• Self-taught learning: Transfer learning from unlabeled data.
  Rajat Raina, Alexis Battle, Honglak Lee, Benjamin Packer and Andrew Y. Ng.
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2007.
  [ PDF ]



• Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Semidefinite Programming and Kernel Matrix Factorization. (Outstanding student paper award)
  Kilian Weinberger, Benjamin Packer and Lawrence Saul.
  Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2005.
  [ PDF ]

Pictures My new kitten
Costa Rica
Aviva's website
The bottom of our autogenerated 1040 form that was submitted to the IRS for 2007

Address

Gates Building, Room 116
353 Serra Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
(508) 415-0480
bpacker AT cs DOT this_school DOT edu