Skyler Speakman

(U.S. Citizen) speakman@cmu.edu

Education Carnegie Mellon University H. John Heinz III College Ph.D. Information Systems & Management (Expected 2014) M.Phil. Public Policy & Management (2012) School of Computer Science M.S. Machine Learning (2013) University of Kentucky M.S. Statistics M.A. Mathematics Asbury University B.A. Applied Mathematics Minors: Computer Science, Physics Research Developing novel methods for event and pattern detection in large spatial-temporal datasets with applications to bio-surveillance, public health, and sanitation. Advisor: Dr. Daniel B. Neill, Carnegie Mellon University. Publications: S. Speakman, Y. Zhang, and D. B. Neill. Dynamic pattern detection with temporal consistency th and connectivity constraints. Proceedings of the 13 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2013. S. Speakman, S. Somanchi, E. McFowland III, and D. B. Neill. Disease surveillance, case study. In R. Alhajj and J. Rokne, eds., Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining , Springer, 2013, in press. E. McFowland III, S. Speakman, and D. B. Neill. Fast generalized subset scan for anomalous pattern detection. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2013. S. Speakman, Y. Zhang, and D. B. Neill. Tracking dynamic water-borne outbreaks with temporal consistency constraints. Proceedings of the International Society for Disease Surveillance Annual Conference, available online at www.syndromic.org, 2012. S. Speakman, E. McFowland III, S. Somanchi, and D. B. Neill. Scalable detection of irregular disease clusters using soft compactness constraints. Emerging Health Threats Journal 4: 11121, 2011. 2004-2008 2008-Present

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S. Speakman and D. B. Neill. Fast graph scan for scalable detection of arbitrary connected clusters. Proceedings of the International Society for Disease Surveillance Annual Conference, available online at www.syndromic.org, 2009. C. L. Schardl, K. D. Craven, R. Yoshida, S. Speakman, A. Stromberg. A novel test for hostsymbiont codivergence indicates ancient origin of fungal en-dophytes in grasses, Systematic Biology. Volume 57, Issue 3, (2008), p483-498.

Working papers: S. Speakman, E. McFowland III, and D. B. Neill. Scalable detection of anomalous patterns with connectivity constraints (Under review). S. Speakman, S. Somanchi, E. McFowland III, and D. B. Neill. Penalized Fast Subset Scanning (Under review). Presentations: S. Speakman, S. Somanchi, E. McFowland III, and D. B. Neill. Penalized fast subset scanning. 6th International Conference on Computational and Methodological Statistics , London, UK, December 2013. S. Speakman, Y. Zhang, and D.B. Neill. Dynamic pattern detection with temporal consistency and connectivity constraints. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Houston, TX, December 2013. S. Speakman, Y. Zhang, and D. B. Neill. Tracking dynamic water-borne outbreaks with temporal consistency constraints. International Society for Disease Surveillance Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, December 2012. D. B. Neill, S. Speakman, E.McFowland III, and S. Somanchi. Efficient subset scanning with soft constraints. Sixth International Workshop on Applied Probability, Jerusalem, Israel, June 2012. S. Speakman and D. B. Neill. Scalable detection of anomalous patterns with connectivity constraints. Quality and Productivity Research Conference, Long Beach, CA, June 2012. S. Speakman and D. B. Neill. Dynamic pattern detection with connectivity and temporal consistency constraints. INFORMS Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC. November 2011. D. B. Neill, E. McFowland III, and S.Speakman. Fast Multivariate Subset Scanning for Scalable Cluster Detection. Joint Statistical Meeting, Miami Beach, FL, July 2011. S. Speakman, E. McFowland III, and D. B. Neill. Scalable detection of anomalous patterns with connectivity constraints. INFORMS Annual Conference, Austin, TX, November 2010. E. McFowland III, S. Speakman, and D.B. Neill. Fast generalized subset scan for anomalous pattern detection. INFORMS Annual Conference, Austin, TX, November 2010. S. Speakman and D. B. Neill. Fast graph scan for scalable detection of arbitrary connected clusters. International Society for Disease Surveillance Annual Conference, Miami, FL, December 2009.

Relevant Coursework Special topics in Machine Learning and Public Policy (Daniel Neill) Event and Pattern Detection Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds Machine Learning for the Developing World Mining Massive Datasets Artificial Intelligence for Health & Sustainability (Manuela Veloso) Multimedia Databases and Data Mining (Christos Faloutsos) Graduate Algorithms (Manuel Blum) Statistics & Statistical Machine Learning (Larry Wasserman) Machine Learning (Carlos Guestrin) 2009-2013

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Teaching Experience Instructor: Carnegie Mellon University (Masters Level) Statistics for IT Managers Required excellent communication skills to lecture a large course with 180 masters students Managed and coordinated 6 teaching assistants Quantitative Summer Skills Program Worked closely with admissions to evaluate students analytical skills in a conditional enrollment program Communicated difficult concepts to students with limited quantitative backgrounds Successfully handled challenging students and difficult recommendations Teaching Assistant: Carnegie Mellon University (Masters Level) Courses: Empirical Methods for Policy & Management, Statistics for IT Managers, Large Scale Data Analysis, Data Mining Led weekly review sessions and often lectured in place of instructor Teaching Assistant: University of Kentucky (Undergraduate Level) Courses: Calculus I & III, College Algebra, Discrete Math, Calculus for Business Collaborated with rural high school teachers to improve algebra proficiency through a National Science Foundation Graduate K-12 Project

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Professional Experience Content reviewer for International Society for Disease Surveillance Annual Conference 2012

Internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Space and Remote Sensing Sciences Performed hardware upgrades for Edotx array Utilized Matlab, C++, and Perl in Linux platforms for digital signal processing Worked around a secure environment and classified information Awards Teaching Assistant of the Year for Heinz College NSF Fellow for the Algebra Cubed program which focused on increasing mathematical conceptual understanding among high school students in rural Kentucky Distinguished Performance Award for Edotx Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory Selected to attend Mathematical Modeling in Industry workshop at Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) Asbury Universitys Presidential Scholarship

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