My research interests include machine learning. My advisor is Thorsten Joachims. We have recently been working on supervised clustering. A more recent project involves data mining of the survey data from Project FeederWatch.
While I was an undergrad at Duke, I worked with Dr. Susan Rodger (that's Rodger with a "d" and without an "s," sparky) on computer science education visualization tools. This included in 2001 the JAWAA editor, and in 2002 onward the totally new JFLAP 4.0!
Here are my published documents in reverse chronological order:
Susan Rodger and Thomas Finley, JFLAP - An Interactive Formal Languages and Automata Package, ISBN 0763738344, Jones and Bartlett, to be published 2/27/06, 2006.
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Susan H. Rodger, Bart Bressler, Thomas Finley, and Stephen Reading, Turning Automata Theory into a Hands-on Course, Thirty-seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2006.
T. Finley and T. Joachims, Supervised Clustering with Support Vector Machines, Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2005.
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Ryan Cavalcante, Thomas Finley and Susan H. Rodger, A Visual and Interactive Automata Theory Course with JFLAP 4.0, Thirty-fifth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2004 (p.140-144).
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Ayonike Akingbade, Thomas Finley, Diana Jackson, Pretesh Patel and Susan H. Rodger, JAWAA: Easy Web-Based Animation from CS 0 to Advanced CS Courses, Thirty-fourth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, p. 162-166, 2003.
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