Guilherme V. Rocha address: 10944 San Pablo Av. Apt. 234 El Cerrito, CA 94530, USA e-mail: a@c with a = gvrocha, b = stat.berkeley.edu b@d with c = gvrocha, c = gmail.com CURRICULUM VITAE ================================================================================================ EDUCATION + PhD Candidate University of California, Berkeley, Statistics, Expected May 2008. Advisor: Prof. Bin Yu Dissertation committee: Prof. Bin Yu, Prof. John Rice, Prof. Michael Gastpar + MA University of California, Berkeley, Statistics, May 2005. + MS Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Economics, January 2003. + BA University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Mechanical Engineering, January 1999. ================================================================================================ TEACHING EXPERIENCE + UC Berkeley, Department of Statistics, 2003-2007 - Introduction to Statistics, Lower Division Undergraduate Course - Introductory Probability and Statistics for Business, Lower Division Undergraduate Course - Theoretical Statistics, Graduate Course - Linear Models, Graduate Course + Getulio Vargas Foundation, Graduate School of Economics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2000-2003 - Microeconomics, Graduate Course - Statistics, Graduate Course - Advanced Econometrics, Graduate Course - Applied Econometrics, Graduate Course ================================================================================================ AWARDS + Laha Travel Award, 2007 Travel award awarded yearly to students to attend the Joint Statistical Meeting 2007. + American Statistical Association Bay Area Chapter Travel Award, 2006 Travel award to attend the Joint Statistical Meeting 2006. + BBA Bank Award, 2000 Awarded once a year to the Getulio Vargas Foundation student with best academic performance ================================================================================================ RESEARCH INTERESTS + Statistical methodology and algorithms for high-dimensional data sets + Statistical machine learning algorithms + Sensor networks data modeling and compression ================================================================================================ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE + Summer intern, Intel Lab, Berkeley, CA, 2005 Developed a TinyOS application for a sensor network to collect data on the Intel sensor network testbed + Systems Analyst and Programmer, Aspen Software, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1999-2000 Developed Visual Basic and PL-SQL components for a system controlling the emission of fiscal documents + Systems Analyst and Programmer, Interprint, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1998-1999 Developed a system controlling applications and emission of driver licenses in different Brazilian states ================================================================================================ COMPUTING EXPERIENCE + Mathematical Packages: - Matlab - R - S-Plus + Programming Languages: - Python - SQL - Visual Basic - C, C++ - Pascal + Platforms: - Mac OS X - UNIX - Windows ================================================================================================ PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS + American Statistical Association + Institute of Mathematical Statistics + Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ================================================================================================ PUBLICATIONS + Journal Articles - A multivariate conditional autoregressive range model Marcelo Fernandes, Bernardo Mota and Guilherme Rocha, 2005 Economic Letters 86(3), pages 435-440 + Technical reports/Preprints - Grouped and Hierarchical Model Selection through Composite Absolute Penalties Peng Zhao, Guilherme Rocha and Bin Yu, 2005 Technical Report #703,Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley Submitted to the Annals of Statistics + Discussions - A Tale of three cousins: LASSO, L2 Boosting and Dantzig Nicolai Meinshausen, Guilherme Rocha and Bin Yu, Forthcoming, Annals of Statistics ================================================================================================ TALKS + Invited Talks - SAMSI Workshop on Geometry, Random Matrices, and Statistical Inference, 2007 Grouped and Hierarchical Model Selection through Composite Absolute Penalties Joint work with Peng Zhao and Bin Yu + Contributed Conference Talks - Joint Statistical Meeting 2006, Seattle Grouped and Hierarchical Model Selection through Composite Absolute Penalties Joint work with Peng Zhao and Bin Yu - Interface 2006, Pasadena Grouped and Hierarchical Model Selection through Composite Absolute Penalties Joint work with Peng Zhao and Bin Yu - NIPS 2005 Grouped and Hierarchical Model Selection through Composite Absolute Penalties Joint work with Peng Zhao and Bin Yu ================================================================================================ REFERENCES + Prof. Bin Yu Department of Statistics University of California, Berkeley webpage: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/binyu Contact information available upon request + Prof. Martin Wainwright Department of Electrical Engineering and Statistics University of California, Berkeley webpage: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wainwrig/ Contact information available upon request + Prof. John Rice Department of Statistics University of California, Berkeley webpage: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/rice/ Contact information available upon request + Prof. Marcelo Fernandes Department of Economics Queen Mary, University of London webpage: http://alpha.qmul.ac.uk/~tew053/ Contact information available upon request