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Tim Althoff
PhD Candidate in Computer Science
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- September 2014: I am now a fellow at DERP, an alliance of platforms supporting the academic exploration of communities online. Our work on helping behavior in reddit has been featured in The Guardian and The Economist.
- June - September 2013: I interned in Google's machine intelligence group in Mountain View working on automatic timeline generation for entities with rich history together with Luna Dong, Kevin Murphy, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Safa Alai, Van Dang, and Wei Zhang.
- June 2014: My thesis on trending topics in online media has been awarded a university-wide thesis award from the Kreissparkassen-Foundation (awarded across all disciplines).
- June 2014: Our work on trending topics in online media has been featured on Technology.org.
- May 2014: Our work on how to ask for a favor has been featured across a number of news sites and media outlets including the Huffington Post, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Slate's Future Tense blog, ABC News, Business Insider, International Business Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Scientias.nl, and FastCompany Co.Exist.
- May - August 2013: I interned at Google Research in Mountain View again working on music recommendation for YouTube with David Ross, Huazhong Ning, and Mohamad Tarifi.
- January 2013: Our work on trending topics in online media has been awarded with a PiCloud Academic Research Program Grant.
- April 2013: After completing my classes at UC Berkeley and completing my thesis at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence I graduated with honors from University of Kaiserslautern (MS).
- May - September 2012: I interned at Google Research in Mountain View working on YouTube Music with David Ross, Douglas Eck, and Hrishikesh Aradhye.
- August 2011 - May 2012: I visited Trevor Darrell's vision group at UC Berkeley and ICSI working on object detection and multimedia event recognition.
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How to Ask for a Favor: A Case Study on the Success of Altruistic Requests
Tim Althoff, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Dan Jurafsky
AAAI ICWSM 2014
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[dataset]
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Analysis and Forecasting of Trending Topics in Online Media Streams
Tim Althoff, Damian Borth, Jörn Hees, Andreas Dengel
ACM Multimedia 2013
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[slides]
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Analysis and Forecasting of Trending Topics in Online Media
Tim Althoff
Master's Thesis, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 2013
[thesis]
[slides]
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Detection Bank: An Object Detection Based Video Representation for Multimedia Event Recognition
Tim Althoff, Hyun Oh Song, Trevor Darrell
ACM Multimedia 2012
[paper]
[poster]
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Sparselet Models for Efficient Multiclass Object Detection
Hyun Oh Song, Stefan Zickler, Tim Althoff, Ross Girshick, Mario Fritz, Christopher Geyer, Pedro Felzenszwalb, Trevor Darrell
Proceedings of ECCV 2012
[paper]
[demo video]
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Don't Look Back: Post-hoc Category Detection via Sparse Reconstruction
Hyun Oh Song, Mario Fritz, Tim Althoff, Trevor Darrell
UC Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2012-16, Jan. 2012
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Balanced Clustering for Content-based Image Browsing
Tim Althoff, Adrian Ulges, Andreas Dengel
German Computer Science Society, Informatiktage, March 2011.
[paper]
[FIVES project]
[Navidgator demo by Damian Borth]
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Scalable Clustering for Hierarchical Content-based Browsing of Large-scale Image Collections
Tim Althoff
Bachelor's Thesis, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 2010
[thesis]
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Recommending CouchSurfers: Machine Learning for Social Travel
Ron Sun, Tobi Baumgartner, Tim Althoff, Sergey Karayev
CS281B Scalable Machine Learning (Alex Smola), Spring 2012
University of California, Berkeley
[CouchSurfing.org]
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Iterative Learning: Leveraging the Computer as an On-Demand Expert Artist
Tim Althoff, Armin Samii
CS281A Statistical Learning Theory (Michael Jordan and Martin Wainwright) and
CS294-69 Image Manipulation and Computational Photography (Maneesh Agrawala), Fall 2011
University of California, Berkeley
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Social Media Driven Concept Detection (survey)
Tim Althoff
Seminar on Collaborative Intelligence (Andreas Dengel), Summer 2011
University of Kaiserslautern
[paper]
[slides]
Tim Althoff
email: [my last name] @stanford.edu
linkedin profile
CV/references available upon request