Jeff M Phillips
BS Computer Science, Rice University (2003)
BA Mathematics, Rice University (2003)
Doctoral Student, Department of Computer Science, Duke University

Department of Computer Science, Duke University
BioGeometry Project
formerly: The Physical and Biological Computing Group, Rice University
Duke Address:
D101 LSRC Building
Research Drive
Durham, NC 27708
(919) 660-4008
(919) 660-6519 (fax)

Personal Address:
6A Carson Circle
Durham, NC 27705
(262) 893-0DXY (cell)

Email: jeffp|at|cs|dot|duke|dot|edu
Office: D208 LSRC Building
Office hours: often

Resume (2008): pdf
Research:
Computational geometry with applications in statistics, data mining, databases, structural biology, and robotics.

Computational Methods for Spatial Scan Statistics
Shape Analysis for Protein Alignment
Publish Subscribe Databases
Robotics : Guided Motion Planning | Physical Simulation
Activities:
  • In the past I have organized the triseminar, an informal seminar and discussion group among cs theory grad students, and the Algorithms Seminar.
  • I have a small collection of photos in flickr. (recent trip to Denmark and Iceland) (recent trip to Sonoma County)
    Publications:
  • An Efficient Algorithm for Euclidean 2-Center with Outliers. (to appear)
         Pankaj K. Agarwal, Jeff M. Phillips. 16th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms. September 2008.

  • Algorithms for &epsilon-Approximations of Terrains. (Best Student Paper)
         Jeff M. Phillips. 35th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming. July 2008.
         long version as arXiV 0801.2793. May 2008.

  • Spatial Scan Statistics for Graph Clustering.
         Bei Wang, Jeff M. Phillips, Robert Schrieber, Dennis Wilkinson, Nina Mishra, Robert Tarjan. 8th SIAM Intenational Conference on Data Mining. April 2008.

  • Value-Based Notification Conditions in Large-Scale Publish/Subscribe Systems.
         Badrish Chandramouli, Jeff M. Phillips, Jun Yang. 33rd Intenational Conference on Very Large Data Bases. September 2007.

  • Outlier Robust ICP for Minimizing Fractional RMSD.
         Jeff M. Phillips, Ran Liu, Carlo Tomasi. 6th International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling. August 2007.
         long version as Duke University Technical Report CS-2006-05 and arXiV cs.GR/0606098. May 2006.
         poster/abstract for 4th Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing. June 2006.

  • Segmenting Motifs in Protein-Protein Interface Surfaces.
         Jeff M. Phillips, Johannes Rudolph, Pankaj K. Agarwal. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics. September 2006.

  • Spatial Scan Statistics: Approximations and Performance Study.
         Deepak Agarwal, Andrew McGregor, Jeff M. Phillips, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Zhengyuan Zhu. 12th Annual ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. August 2006.

  • On Bipartite Matching under the RMS Distance.
         Pankaj K. Agarwal, Jeff M. Phillips. 18th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry. August 2006.

  • The Hunting of the Bump: On Maximizing Statistical Discrepancy.
         Deepak Agarwal, Jeff M. Phillips, Suresh Venkatasubramanian. 17th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. January 2006.
         abstract for Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry. November 2005.

  • Guided Expansive Spaces Trees: A Search Strategy for Motion- and Cost-Constrained State Spaces.
         Jeff M. Phillips, Nazareth Bedrossian, and Lydia E. Kavraki. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. April 2004.

  • Spacecraft Rendezvous and Docking with Real-Time, Randomized Optimization.
         Jeff M. Phillips, Lydia E. Kavraki, and Nazareth Bedrossian. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control. August 2003.

  • Probabilistic Optimization Applied to Spacecraft Rendezvous and Docking.
         Jeff M. Phillips, Lydia E. Kavraki, and Nazareth Bedrossian. AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting. February 2003.

  • Simulated Knot Tying.
         Jeff M. Phillips, Andrew M. Ladd, Lydia E. Kavraki. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. May 2002.
    Coauthors:
    Deepak Agarwal | Pankaj K. Agarwal | Nazareth Bedrossian | Badrish Chandramouli | Lydia E. Kavraki | Andrew Ladd | Ran Liu | Andrew McGregor | Nina Mishra | Johannes Rudolph | Robert Schreiber | Robert E. Tarjan | Carlo Tomasi | Suresh Venkatasubramanian | Bei Wang | Dennis Wilkinson | Jun Yang | Zhengyuan Zhu
    Breif History of Jeff:
    Born and raised in the suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin by parents John and Geri Phillips. One sister, Michelle, now married and living in Australia.
    Received undergrad education at Rice University. Graduated with a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Mathematics in 2003. Former memeber of Jones Residential College. Former member of the Biological and Physical Computing Group with Lydia Kavraki.
    Interned at Draper Labs near NASA JSC with Nazareth Bedrossian in 2002.
    Interned at AT&T Research -- Shannon Labs with Suresh Venkatasubramanian in 2005.
    Interned at Yahoo! Research with Michael Mahoney in 2007.
    Currently a PhD student in the Duke Computer Science Department with advisor Pankaj K. Agarwal.
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