AI Lecture Series, Vol. III - Data Mining Applications

Speakers

Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Caruso, University Luxemburg (Luxembourg)

Geoffrey is an Associate Professor at the University of Luxembourg since September 2007 as well as an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Operations Research and Econometrics , University of Leuven, Belgium. Before that time, he has been a Research Associate at the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique in Belgium and at the Martin Centre for Urban and Architectural Studies, University of Cambridge (UK). He received his Ph.D. in Geographical Sciences at the Universit catholique de Louvain. His research interests are among other things geographical analysis and modelling, spatial statistics, and GIS and Cartography.

Dr. Sabine Erhardt, Bundeskriminalamt Wiesbaden (Germany)

Dr. Merja Heinäniemi, University Luxemburg (Luxembourg)

Merja has received both her Master of Science in Biochemistry in 2005 and her PhD in Biochemistry in 2007 from the University of Kuopio, Finland. Her major interests are the transcriptional regulation of cellular differentiation and regulatory network inference and the genome-wide analysis of the target genes of transcription factors (PPARs, VDR, NFE2L2), especially the inference from binding site data and integrated genomic data sources.

Anke Wienecke, University Luxemburg (Luxembourg)

Anke received her Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, in 2008, her diploma in Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics from the University of Applied Science Giessen, Germany, 2005, and her diploma as Graduate Engineer in Biotechnology from the University of Applied Science Giessen, Germany, in 2000. Her ma jor interests are: Genetic Epidemiology, Regulatory SNPs, In silico based Target Gene Discovery, Database Development, Python Programming

Dr. Klaus Julisch IBM Research, Zurich (Switzerland)

Klaus Julisch has over 10 years of experience in IT security. In 1999, he joined the IBM Research Lab in Zurich, Switzerland, where he developed new security alert correlation techniques for IBMs commercial divisions. From 2005 to 2007, Dr. Julisch was on assignment to the Research Headquarters in Yorktown, USA, where he was instrumental in launching IBMs secure ID card business. Since 2007, Dr. Julisch has been leading a major Research pro ject aimed at improving the security and compliance of cloud computing. Dr. Julisch has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Dortmund, Germany, and a M.Sc. from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and Bordeaux, France.

Dr. Ivan Laptev, INRIA Paris (France)

Ivan Laptev is currently a full-time researcher in Willow team at Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA) and ́Ecole Normale Suprieure (ENS) in Paris, France. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm in 2004 and his Master of Science degree from the same institute in 1997, he was a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) during 1997-1999, he joined INRIA in 2004. Ivans main research interests are focused on automatic interpretation of dynamic visual scenes including recognition of human actions, scenes and ob jects in video and still images. Ivan has published over 30 papers at international conferences and journals on computer vision, he serves as an associate editor of Image and Vision Computing Journal, he is a regular member of program committees of major international conferences on computer vision, he was an area chair of CVPR 2010. Ivan has been awarded “Prime d'Excellence Scientifique” in 2010.

Prof Dr. Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

Marie-Francine (Sien) Moens is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. She holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from this university. She is head of the Language Intelligence and Information retrieval (LIIR) research team, and is a member of the HyperMedia and Databases unit. Her main interests are in the domain of automated content retrieval from text using a combination of statistical, machine learning and symbolic techniques, and exploiting insights from linguistic and cognitive theories. She investigates topics such as Content recognition in text and information extraction, text understanding – Automatic indexing of text, topic tracking – Processing of noisy texts such as spam mail, blogs – Text mining and e-forensics – Knowledge acquisition from text – Cross-media and cross-lingual) alignment, linking and summarization of content – Information retrieval and search models – Text based question answering and reasoning. She is currently appointed as chair-elect of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) . She is the author of many international publications and books.

Prof. Dr. Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid (Spain)

Alfonso Valencia is a biologist with formal training in population genetics and biophysics which he received from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He was awarded his PhD in 1988 at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
He was a Visiting Scientist at the American Red Cross Laboratory in 1987 and from 1989 – 1994 was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the laboratory of C. Sander at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany.
In 1994 he set up the Protein Design Group at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid where he was appointed as Research Professor in 2005.
He is a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), Founder and former Vice President of the International Society for Computational Biology where he has been Chair of the Systems Biology and/or Text Mining Tracks of the main Computational Biology Annual Conference (ISMB) since 2003.
Alfonso Valencia serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics, Biozentrum, Basel; the INTERPRO database; the Spanish Grant Evaluation Agency (ANEP); the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) expert panel; as well as the Steering Committee of the European Science Foundation Programme on Functional Genomics (2006 – 2011). His Group participates in the three main Bioinformatics Networks of Excellence organised under the 6th European Framework Programme (BioSapiens, EMBRACE and ENFIN).
Alfonso Valencia is Co-Executive Editor of Bionformatics, serves on the Editorial Board of FEBS J, EMBO Journal and EMBO Reports, among others. He is Director of the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB).

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