Dr. Tanya Schmah
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Ottawa
email: (my first initial and last name) (at) uottawa.ca .
Research interests
statistical machine learning, image registration, geometric
mechanics
*** Please note
that I am not accepting any new students for 2021 ***
Sample
Undergraduate Research Projects:
Automated
interpretation of video for detecting respiratory response in zebrafish;
Aerial spins of athletes;
Detecting lesions in neuroimages with neural networks
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here for details
Teaching
Winter 2021:
MAT4144/MAT5158
Lie Groups
MAT4387
Optimization: Theory and Practice
Past courses:
MAT4376C/5314C Statistical Machine Learning
MAT 2384 Ordinary Differential Equations and Numerical
Methods
MAT 4599 Variétés et géométrie différentielle
MAT
4155 Elementary Manifold Theory
MAT
1702 Méthodes Mathématiques
II
MAT 4144/MAT5158 Lie Groups
MAT 1348 Discrete Mathematics for Computing
Brief Bio
Prior
to joining the University of Ottawa, I worked at Rotman
Research, Baycrest, and the University of Toronto,
where I worked with Stephen
Strother, Rich Zemel and Geoffrey
Hinton applying statistics and machine learning to medical images and other
"wide" data sets. From February 2004 to January 2007, I was a
lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at Macquarie University, and before
that a lecturer at the University of
Warwick (U.K.). In 2001, I finished a doctorate under the supervision of Tudor
Ratiu at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de
Lausanne. A lot of my research has been in geometric mechanics, a field in
which modern differential geometry is used to study classical mechanical
problems. My main collaborators in this field have been Cristina Stoica, Mark Roberts and Darryl Holm.