Research

Change Modeling for Understanding our World and the Counterfactual One(s)
William Herlands
Doctoral Dissertation, 2020
[PDF, BibTeX]

Change Surfaces for Expressive Multidimensional Changepoints and Counterfactual Prediction
William Herlands, Daniel B. Neill, Hannes Nickisch, Andrew Gordon Wilson
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2019
[PDF, arXiv, BibTeX]

Automated Local Regression Discontinuity Design Discovery
William Herlands, Edward McFowland III, Andrew Gordon Wilson, Daniel B. Neill
SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2018
[PDF, BibTeX]

Gaussian Process Subset Scanning for Anomalous Pattern Detection in Non-IID Data
William Herlands, Edward McFowland III, Andrew Gordon Wilson, Daniel B. Neill
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2018
[PDF, supplement, arXiv, BibTeX]

Machine Learning for the Developing World
Maria De-Arteaga, William Herlands, Daniel B. Neill, Artur Dubrawski
Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), 2018
[PDF, BibTeX]

Machine Learning for Drug Overdose Surveillance
Daniel B. Neill and William Herlands
Journal of Technology in Human Services, 2017
[TandF, arXiv]

Scalable Gaussian Processes for Characterizing Multidimensional Change Surfaces
William Herlands, Andrew Gordon Wilson, Hannes Nickisch, Seth Flaxman, Daniel B. Neill, Wilbert van Panhuis, and Eric Xing
Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2016
[PDF, supplement, arXiv, BibTeX]

Lass-zero: Sparse Non-Convex Regression by Local Search
William Herlands, Maria De-Arteaga, Daniel B. Neill, and Artur Dubrawski
NIPS Workshop on Optimization, 2015
[PDF, arXiv, BibTeX]

A Machine Learning Approach to Musically Meaningful Homogeneous Style Classification
William Herlands, Ricky Der, Yoel Greenberg, and Simon Levin
Association for the Advancement in Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2014
[PDF, BibTeX]

Effective Entropy: Security-Centric Metric for Memory Randomization Technologies
William Herlands, Thomas Hobson, and Paula J. Donovan
USENIX Workshop on Cybersecurity Security Experimentation, 2014
[PDF, BibTeX]