Monday January 23rd 4:00 - 4:50pm KEC 1001 Saso Dzeroski Department of Knowledge Technologies Jozef Stefan Institute Ljubljana Slovenia
Environmental Applications of Machine Learning The talk will give an overview of environmental applications of machine learning. Example applications include earthquake prediction and modelling gene-flow between GM and conventional crops. The talk will present in more detail two general classes of ecological modelling problems, namely modeling population dynamics and modelling habitat suitability that are often addressed by using machine learning methods. Example applications from each class will be given, such as modelling algal growth in the lagoon of Venice and modelling the habitat of brown bears in Slovenia. Bio: Saso Dzeroski is a senior scientific associate at (and deputy head of) the Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is also an associate professor at the Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School. He has conducted research on a wide variety of topics within machine learning (including computational scientific discovery, computational learning theory, relational learning, inductive logic programming, reinforcement learning) and its applications (environmental sciences, life sciences and natural language processing). He has also organized a range of scientific and educational events (conferences, workshops, seminars) on the above topics and co-authored/co-edited three books and five published proceedings. He was program co-chair of ICML-99, invited speaker at ICML-02 and general chair of ICML-05 (The Twentysecond International Conference on Machine Learning). _______________________________________________ Colloquium mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/colloquium
