1. Tentative Teaching Through October 14
Aug. 24: Course Overview ( )
Aug. 26: Lecture: Introduction to Anomaly Detection + Overview Density Est.
Aug. 31: Overview Density Estimation continued
Sept. 2: Paper-walkthrough: Survey Book Chapter Paper Anomaly Detection
Sept. 9: Paper-walkthrough: Silverman’s Classical paper on Density Estimation;
Sept. 14: Leftovers, Dr. Eick: “Thoughts on Research”
Sept. 16: Student Presentation: Using GMM for Anomaly Detection by Pham, Nguyen (40-50 minutes); discussion of model selection and EM
Sept. 21: Student Presentation Density-estimation Tools in R by Sarafianos,Nikolaos and Le,Ha Anh Vu (60-65 minutes) and answer questions for Silverman Paper (10-15 minutes)
Sept. 23: Student Presentation on Distance-based Outlier Detection by Agarwal, Kajol (25-30 minutes) lecture on: Boundaries and How to be Sucessful in your research
September 28: NIPS 2014 paper presentation on Robust Density Estimation by Khahil, Nacer (25-30 minutes) Lecture: How to Be Successful in Research
September 30: Paper-walkthrough Overview paper Deep Learning
October 5: Student Presentation Backpropagation Algorithms Parmar, Kunal (30-40 minutes) and Yang, Lifeng
October 7: Lecture Dr. Eick on Reading and Writing Papers / Homework1 / Finish WS
October 12: Student Presentation Dunbar, Arthur related to Deep Learning, BakPropEx
October 14: Lecture Dr. Eick on Reading and Writing Papers / Discussion Quiz1; leftovers NIPS NPDE paper; discussion homework1

2. Tentative Teaching October 19 through Dec. 2
October 19: Leftovers and TBDL
October 21: no class
October 26: Quiz1
October 28(1): Short Lecture Dr. Eick (20 minutes); 1 Student Presentation Yongli Zhang on Trajectory Clusterings: Basic and Model-based Approaches
November 2(1): 1 Presentation Jiang,Tianxiao on Trajectory Clustering + Discussion Abstracts
November 4: Paper Walkthrough Ensemble Learning
November 9(2): Disucssion Homework2; Presentation Sarafianos on Temporal Clustering + Presentation Kajol on Trajectory Classification
November 11(1): Student Presentation Ha Le on Trajectory Classification, and discussions of introductions and conclusions of Homework1.
November 16: no class
November 18(2): Student Presentations: Yongli Zhang & Nacer Khalil on ADABOOST
November 20 (2): (Makeup Class for Cancelled Classes): Presentation Yang, Lifeng + Presentation N.N + TBDL
November 23: Quiz2
November 25: 1 day before Thanksgiving: no class (official UH Holyday)
November 30(1): 1 presentation and discussion of the paper reviews of Homework2
December 2(2): 2 presentations
Still unassigned second presentation: Nguyen, Kunal, Tianxiao, Dunbar