I have moved to University of Utah as a CI Postdoctoral Fellow. See my webpage there. This page is no longer maintained.
Jeff M Phillips
BS Computer Science, Rice University (2003)
BA Mathematics, Rice University (2003)
Ph.D. Computer Science, Duke University (2009)
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Computer Science, Duke University
Duke Address:
Box 90129
Durham, NC 27708
(919) 660-6596 (office)
(919) 660-6519 (fax)

Personal Address:
6A Carson Circle
Durham, NC 27705
(262) 893-0399 (cell)

Email: jeffp|at|cs.duke.edu
Office: D340 LSRC Building
Research Interests: Algorithms, Computational Geometry, Computational Statistics, Data Mining, Databases, Robotics, Computational Structural Biology

I will be starting as a Postdoc at University of Utah as a Computing Innovation Fellow with Suresh Venkatasubramanian September 1, 2009.
Thesis:
  • Small and Stable Descriptors of Distributions for Geometric Statistical Problems.
         Jeff M. Phillips. Department of Computer Science, Duke University. January 2009.
    Publications:
  • Stability of &epsilon-Kernels.
         Pankaj K. Agarwal, Jeff M. Phillips, Hai Yu. (submitted). July 2009.

  • Lipschitz Unimodal and Isotonic Regression on Paths and Trees.
         Pankaj K. Agarwal, Jeff M. Phillips, Bardia Sadri. (submitted). July 2009.

  • Shape Fitting on Point Sets with Probability Distributions.
         Maarten Loffler, Jeff M. Phillips. 17th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms. September 2009.
         long version as an Utrecht tech report UU-CS-2009-013. June 2009.
         or before a split from a deterministic algorithm as arXiV 0812.2967. December 2008.

  • An Efficient Algorithm for Euclidean 2-Center with Outliers.
         Pankaj K. Agarwal, Jeff M. Phillips. 16th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms. September 2008.
         long version as arXiV 0806.4326. 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 | Maarten Loffler | 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.
    Married Bei Wang in summer 2009.
    Received undergraduate education at Rice University. Graduated with a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Mathematics in 2003. Former member of Jones Residential College. Former member of the Physical and Biological 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.
    Attended graduate school in the Duke Computer Science Department with advisor Pankaj K. Agarwal. Successfully defended my PhD thesis January 19, 2009.
    Currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the Duke Computer Science Department with supervisor Pankaj K. Agarwal.