The Melodi Laboratory at the University of Washington, Seattle (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, or ECE) comprises a group of individuals studying machine learning, optimization, and data interpretation. We look at machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science with twin goals: (1) advance the theoretical and mathematical understanding of new and existing algorithms to understand why they work; and (2) conducting empirically-driven data science experiments on ever increasingly large real-world data sets, and working on system-level strategies to achieve this. We are interested in discrete and continuous mathematical optimization and statistical strategies for solving some of the most challenging AI problems today. We work on a number of applications, including speech (SP) and natural language processing (NLP), computational biology, computer vision, and sensor networks.

Jeff Bilmes
UW Melodi-Lab Founder

Jeff Bilmes, Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, Dept. of ECE, Dept. of CSE (adjunct), and Dept. of Linguistics (adjunct)