Prof Russ Greiner is visiting us

[Barnabas Poczos]

Dear Friends,

Professor Russ Greiner from University of Alberta, Edmonton, is going
to visit us on April 13th -14th. On April 13th he is going to give a
talk at the ML Lunch seminar.

Russ is an outstanding researcher and also a great friend of mine. If
you would like to meet him, please subscribe here or talk to Sandy
(cc-ed). I'm attaching his bio below.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wh_2fbNf2jrvFgnpxunVUohyY4Jlw1GNBvT1z0IiMK0/edit#gid=0

Thanks,
Barnabas

After earning a PhD from Stanford, Russ Greiner worked in both
academic and industrial research before settling at the University of
Alberta, where he is now a Professor in Computing Science and the
founding Scientific Director of the Alberta Innovates Centre for
Machine Learning, which won the ASTech Award for "Outstanding
Leadership in Technology" in 2006. He has been Program Chair for the
2004 "Int'l Conf. on Machine Learning", Conference Chair for 2006
"Int'l Conf. on Machine Learning", Editor-in-Chief for "Computational
Intelligence", and is serving on the editorial boards of a number of
other journals. He was elected a Fellow of the AAAI (Association for
the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) in 2007, and was awarded a
McCalla Professorship in 2005-06 and a Killam Annual Professorship in
2007. He has published over 200 refereed papers and patents, most in
the areas of machine learning and knowledge representation, including
4 that have been awarded Best Paper prizes. The main foci of his
current work are (1) bioinformatics and medical informatics; (2)
learning and using effective probabilistic models and (3) formal
foundations of learnability.


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Barnabas Poczos, PhD
Assistant Professor
Machine Learning Department
Carnegie Mellon University