MARK H. GOADRICH

6785 Medical Sciences * 1300 University Avenue * Madison, WI 53706
4728 Regent St #101-B * Madison, WI 53705
richm@cs.wisc.edu


EDUCATION
Aug '98 - Present
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Computer Science - M.S. May '00
Expected Ph.D. Dec '06

Coursework Includes:
  • Machine Learning
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Complexity
  • Database Management Systems
  • Research in Computational Politics

Honors and Organizations:
  • '04 International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming Best Student Paper Award
  • '02-'04,'06 Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine Trainee
  • '02-'03 UW ACM Chapter President
  • '01-'02 UW ACM Chapter Social Chair
  • '00 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor in UW CS Department
  • Member of ACM SIG on K-12 CS Education '04 - '06
  • Member of IEEE '98 - '03
  • Member of SACM '98 - '03
  • Member of Sigma Xi '98 - '03

Aug '94 - May '98
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
Mathematics and Philosophy - B.A. May '98

Coursework Includes:
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Linear Algebra
  • Symbolic Logic
  • Automated Theorem Proving
  • Formal Models of Cognition
  • Early Analytic Philosophy

Honors and Organizations:
  • Member - Curriculum Review Committee '97 - '98
  • Solomon R. S. Kasper Prize for creativity in computer science '98
  • Kenyon Summer Science Scholar - Summer '97
  • Editor - The Kenyon Observer '95 - '98
  • Member - Kenyon College Chamber Singers '95 - '98

EXPERIENCE
Sep '01 - Present
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Research Assistant for Professor Jude Shavlik

Publications:
  1. Gleaner: Creating Ensembles of First-Order Clauses to Improve Recall-Precision Curves
    Mark Goadrich, Louis Oliphant and Jude Shavlik
    Machine Learning, 64, pp. 231-262, 2006
  2. The Relationship Between Precision-Recall and ROC Curves
    Jesse Davis and Mark Goadrich
    23rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 26th - 28th June, 2006
  3. Learning to Extract Genic Interactions using Gleaner
    Mark Goadrich, Louis Oliphant and Jude Shavlik
    Learning Language in Logic 2005 Workshop at the International Conference on Machine Learning, Bonn, Germany, 7 August 2005
  4. Learning Ensembles of First-Order Clauses for Recall-Precision Curves: A Case Study in Biomedical Information Extraction
    Mark Goadrich, Louis Oliphant and Jude Shavlik
    14th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, Porto, Portugal, 6th - 8th September, 2004
  5. Model Robustness versus Parameter Evolution: Assortative Interaction in a Bargaining Game
    Mark Goadrich
    NAACSOS Methods, Toolkits, and Techniques Section Workshop, AGENT 2003, Chicago, IL, October, 2003

Jun '01 - Aug '01 University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Instructor

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CS540)
  • Instructor of 30 students upper-class CS majors.
  • Managed teaching assistant and prepared extensive course webpage.
  • Lecture topics included Search Spaces, Genetic Algorithms, Knowledge Representation, Machine Learning and Probability.

Jan '01 - May '01
Aug '98 - May '00
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Teaching Assistant

Introduction to Programming in Java (CS302)
  • Stand-alone instructor of 5 sections, 20 students each.
  • Prepared extensive course webpage with demonstration programs.
  • Delivered lectures and assisted students in office hours.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CS540)
  • Organized and led weekly discussion section.
  • Created and graded homework in Java.
  • Lectured on "Formalizing a Search Space" and "Propositional Logic".
  • Course included decision trees, neural networks, uncertainty, and predicate calculus.

Using Computers (CS132)
  • Instructor of fifty students in basics of Microsoft Office, Internet, and Windows.
  • Developed extensive handouts covering Office tutorials.
  • Redesigned course webpage.

June '00 - Nov '00
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Research Analyst

  • Initiated redesign of military ground game software.
  • Researched, developed, and implemented quadtree spatial data structure.
  • Supported client software use at Joint Military Exercise JEFX'00.

May '99 - Dec '99
Computation, Vision and Geometry Research Group, Madison, Wisconsin
Webmaster

  • Organized content for presentation to sponsors.
  • Designed user-friendly template for all group web-pages.
  • Maintained current events and additional research project pages.

Aug '95 - May '98
Information and Computing Systems, Gambier, Ohio
Helpline Operator / Computer Consultant

  • Answered computer-related questions by telephone.
  • Routed service requests via database.
  • Performed on-site assistance for faculty and students.

COMPUTER SKILLS Systems: Microsoft Windows 3.11, 95, 2000, NT and XP, MacOS, Unix, Linux
Languages: Java, Prolog, HTML, XML, XSLT, Scheme, C++, Perl
Knowledge: Microsoft Office, Aleph & YAP, Adobe Illustrator 8.0, Matlab v5, Frontier v5

REFERENCES Professor Jude Shavlik - shavlik@cs.wisc.edu
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Professor Mark Craven - craven@cs.wisc.edu
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Professor David Page - page@biostat.wisc.edu
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin - Madison