Mike Izbicki
About MeI study machine learning theory, especially as applied to large scale social media data.
I also develop of open source libraries for machine learning and scientific computing in thefunctional programming language Haskell.
Email:
Website:Github:mike@izbicki.me
http://izbicki.me
http://github.com/mikeizbicki

Academic Appointments
Postdoc
Visiting Professor
Lecturer

University of California Riverside, USA
2017-2019
Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, DPRK 2015-2016
University of California Riverside, USA
2013-2015

Military Experience

Midshipman (2004-2008), Ensign (2008-2011). Engineering Officer of the Watch for S5W
nuclear reactor. Assistant Security Officer for Naval Submarine School.

Education

University of California Riverside
PhD, Computer Science
Advisor: Christian R. Shelton

2011-2017

Johns Hopkins UniversityMS, Computer Science2008

United States Naval Academy
BS, Computer Science

2004-2008

Publications
Currently under review:
1. Mike Izbicki, Vagelis Papalexakis, Vassilis Tsotras. “Geolocating Tweets Written in
Any Language Sent from Any Location.”
2. Mike Izbicki. “Gradient Clipping Makes Stochastic Gradient Descent Robust to Adversarial Noise.”
3. Mike Izbicki, and Christian Shelton. “Communication-Efficient Distributed MaximumLikelihood Estimation with the Optimal Weighted Average.”
Refereed papers:
4. Mike Izbicki, Sajjad Amini, Christian Shelton, and Hamed Mohensian-Rad. “Identification of Destabilizing Attacks in Power Systems” American Controls Conference(ACC), 2017.
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5. Mike Izbicki, Christian Shelton. “Faster Cover Trees,” International Conference ofMachine Learning (ICML), 2015.
6. Mike Izbicki. “Algebraic classifiers: a generic approach to fast cross-validation, online
training, and parallel training,” International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML),
2013.
Workshop papers, invited presentations, and small articles:
7. “Merging Neural Networks.” Presented at SoCalML, August 2017.
8. “Faster Cover Trees.” Presented at CalState Fullerton, August 2016.
9. “Open Sourcing the Classroom.” Graduate student research competition at SigCSE
2016. Received 3rd place award.
10. “Open Sourcing the Classroom.” International Conference of the Pyongyang Universityof Science and Technology (IcoPUST), 2015.
11. “Bashing Haskell: Reimplementing Haskell’s Parsec Library in the Unix Shell.” SigBOVIK 2015.
12. “Modeling data with algebra.” Workshop on Data Centric Programming (DCP), 2014.
13. “HLearn: a machine learning library for Haskell.” Trends in Functional Programming(TFP), 2013.
14. “The open source software package HLearn.” Workshop on Machine Learning Open
Source Software (MLOSS), 2013.
15. “Two monoids for solving NP-complete problems.” The Monad Reader, 2013.
16. “Machine learning? Why not monoids?” Presented at Facebook, September 2013.

Teaching
Lecturer at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) for:
Open Source Machine Learning Software (graduate level)
Algorithm Design
Algorithm Design
Discrete Math
Lecturer at the University of California Riverside (UCR) for:Software Construction
Software Construction
Software Construction
Software Construction
Introduction to the World Wide Web
Intermediate Data Structures and Algorithms
Introduction to Data Structures
2Fall 2016
Fall 2016
Fall 2015
Fall 2015

Spring 2015
Winter 2015
Fall 2014
Summer 2014
Winter 2014
Fall 2013
Spring 2013

Teaching assistant at UCR for:Software Construction
Introduction to Computer Science II
Introduction to Computer Science I
Computer Security

Spring 2014
Winter 2013
Fall 2012
Fall 2012

Awards
1. US Congressional and California Assembly Recognition awards for contributing topeace on the Korean peninsula through computer science education (2018)
2. SIGCSE graduate student research competition, 3rd place (2016)
3. UCR Dean’s Fellowship (2011)
4. Naval Nuclear Propulstion Training Command (NNPTC) Honor Graduate (2009)
5. Naval VGEP Fellowship (2008)

Other Activities
1. Coach for UCR’s International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC) team(2014-2015)
2. Team leader for CodeAvengers summer camp for elementary and middle schoolers(2013)3