Projects

Semantic Link Automatically find related words using a statistical analysis of the English Wikipedia
AutoCorpus Natural language corpora and language models from large public datasets
PetaBricks Program autotuning for multicores and the cloud
Scheme Power Tools Native monads, pattern matching and generic operator dispatch in Scheme
Strong GP Extensible, strongly-typed Genetic Programming in Haskell
Medical Records De-Identifier Automatic de-identification of electronic medical records via Machine Learning
Last.fm Music Recommender Matrix factorization for recommending music

Patents

Ute Geigenmuller, Doris Damian, Maciej Pacula, Mark A. DePristo. Methods and Systems for Determining Autism Spectrum Disorder Risk . United States Patent 9,176,113. Granted November 3, 2015.

Publications

M. Pacula, T. Meltzer, M. R. Crystal, A. Srivastava, B. Marx. Automatic Detection of Psychological Distress Indicators and Severity Assessment in Crisis Hotline Conversations. 39th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014). Florence, Italy. May 2014.

S. Saleem, M. Pacula, R. Chasin, R. Kumar, R. Prasad, M. Crystal. Automatic Detection of Psychological Distress Indicators in Online Forum Posts. Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA 2012). Hollywood, CA. December 2012.

S. Saleem, R. Prasad, S. Vitaladevuni, M. Pacula, M. Crystal. Automatic Detection of Psychological Distress Indicators and Severity Assessment from Online Forum Posts. 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012). Mumbai, India. December 2012.

J. Ansel, M. Pacula, Y. L. Wong, C. Chan, M. Olszewski, U.M. O’Reilly, S. Amarasinghe. SiblingRivalry: Online Autotuning Through Local Competitions. International Conference on Compilers Architecture and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES 2012). Tampere, Finland. October 2012.

M. Pacula, J. Ansel, S. Amarasinghe, U.M. O'Reilly. Hyperparameter Tuning in Bandit-Based Adaptive Operator Selection. European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications 2012). Malága, Spain. April 2012.

J. Ansel, M. Pacula, S. Amarasinghe, U.M. O'Reilly. An Efficient Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving Incrementally Structured Problems. Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO'11). Dublin, Ireland. July 2011.

M. Pacula. Evolutionary algorithms for compiler-enabled program autotuning. Master's thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA. May 2011.