Jonathan Purnell
Lally Building, 03A	Department of Computer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Email: purnej[at]cs.rpi.edu Phone: (518) 276-8556

Home Publications Code CV	Conference Publications: Purnell, J., Magdon-Ismail, M., "Fast Overlapping Clustering of Networks Using Sampled Spectral Distance Embedding and GMMs", WSDM, 2011 (submitted, under review). Purnell, J., Magdon-Ismail, M., "Approximating the Covariance Matrix with Low-Rank Perturbations",  IDEAL, 2010. Purnell, J., Magdon-Ismail, M., "Learning American English using Ensemble Learning with GMMs", ICMLA, 2009. Nathan Cole, Heidi Jo Newberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Travis Desell, Kristopher Dawsey, Warren Hayashi, Xinyang Fred Liu, Jonathan Purnell, Boleslaw Szymanski, Carlos Varela, Benjamin Willett and James Wisniewski "Maximum Likelihood Fitting of Tidal Streams with Application to the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Tails", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 683, Num. 2,  2008. Purnell, J., Magdon-Ismail, M., Newberg, H., "A Probabilistic Approach to Finding Geometric Objects in Spatial Datasets of the the Milky Way", ISMIS, pg. 485-493, 2005. Technical Reports: Purnell, J., Magdon-Ismail, M. "Fast Overlapping Clustering of Networks Using Sampled Spectral Distance Embedding and GMMs" CS Dept., RPI, 2010