Contact

Room 32-D466, Stata Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
32 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA 02139
650-714-9817
rgrosse_at_mit_edu

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • (expected) Ph.D. in EECS
  • Research Advisor: William T. Freeman
• Stanford University
  • MS in Computer Science, 2008
  • BS in Symbolic Systems, with honors, 2007
  • Research Advisor: Andrew Y. Ng
  • Thesis: Shift-invariant sparse coding for audio classification
  • GPA: 4.04 (A = 4.0)

Publications

• see here

Invited Talks

• “Shift-invariant sparse coding for audio classification.” International Laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound Research, Montreal, Canada, Nov. 14, 2008.

Teaching

• Course Assistant, CS 221: Artificial Intelligence Principles and Techniques, 9/07-12/07
• Section Leader, CS 107: Programming Paradigms, 4/07-6/07

Honors

• 2009 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Best Application Paper
• Supported by National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG), 2009-2012
• Phi Beta Kappa, 2007
• Stanford University J. E. Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement, 2007
• William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition: top 200 nationally in 2005, top 500 in 2003 and 2006
• Supported by New Jersey Star Ledger Mort Pye Scholarship (four-year, full-tuition merit scholarship), 2003-2007