Vibhav Gogate

I'm an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Texas, Dallas. I'm also a member of the Human Language Technology Research Institute. My research interests are in machine learning, automated reasoning and artificial intelligence with a focus on graphical models and their logic-based extensions such as Markov logic.

Before coming to UTD, I was a Post Doctoral Researcher with Pedro Domingos at University of Washington. Before that, I was a Ph.D. student at University of California, Irvine (UCI). My thesis advisor was Rina Dechter.

My CV can be found here.

News and Headlines

AAAI 2012 PAPER
My paper "Advances in Lifted Importance Sampling" with Abhay Jha and Deepak Venugopal was accepted for both oral and poster presentation at the 2012 AAAI conference.
PROBABLISTIC INFERENCE CHALLENGE WIN
My solvers won all categories in the PR and MAR tracks at the PASCAL 2011 probabilistic inference challenge. The results can be found here.
UAI COMPETITION WIN
My solvers FormulaSampleSearch and ijgp won the 20 minutes and 1 hour categories in the PR and MAR tracks respectively at the UAI 2010 approximate inference challenge. The results can be found here.
TUTORIAL
Along with Bozhena Bidyuk and Rina Dechter, I gave a tutorial at AAAI 2010 titled "Sampling Techniques for Probabilistic and Deterministic Graphical Models". The tutorial syllabus and slides are available here.