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Professional Activities

Scientific Director of Amii - Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Former AICML, Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning)
 
Biographical Sketch

Invited Talks since 2000

  1. Is Artificial Intelligence the Answer to Loneliness? UofA Alumni Donor Event, University of Alberta President's office, 14 June, 2021
  2. What can we do with Artificial Intelligence? Should I worry or should I rejoice? Iverson Exam keynote, University of Alberta 8, June 2021
  3. From an interpretable predictive model to a model agnostic explanation, keynote at 34th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CAIAC, 26, May 2021
  4. Using AI for Diabetic Retinopathy Grading with Explanations, Keynote in AI in Healthcare Symposium, AI in Medicine Student Society, 13, March 2021
  5. Associative Classifiers from Competitive Predictions to Explainable AI, Keynote at the African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, CARI - Colloque Africain sur la Recherche en Informatique et en Mathématiques Appliquées Senegal, 15 October 202
  6. Associative Classifiers from Competitive Predictions to Explainable AI, ML2R Scientific Advisory Board meeting, ML2R The Competence Center Machine Learning Rhine-Ruhr, 21, September 2020
  7. Challenges with Probabilistic Networks, 15th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), Dalian, China, November 21-23, 2019.
  8. AI and Its Impact on Society and Education, Education Analytics Symposium: Transforming Data into Actionable Knowledge, Calgary, Canada, November 6, 2019.
  9. How Machine Learning will Transform Business, 5th Annual Data Management and Intelligence Conference, Edmonton, Canada, October 24, 2019
  10. Is Artificial Intelligence the Answer to Loneliness?, University of Alberta President Reception, Calgary, Canada, October 22, 2019
  11. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Precision Medicine, Medical physics seminar series at the Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Canada, October 4, 2019
  12. The pulse of a city - a glimpse at a locality using microblogs and machine learning, PKDD Workshop on Data Science for Social Good, Wurzburg, Germany, September 20, 2019
  13. How Machine Learning will drastically change businesses, Data Management and Intelligence Conference, Calgary, Canada, 22-24 May 2019
  14. Intelligence Artificielle, Science de Données et Big Data, 6 ème Conference Informatique EGOV, Tunis, Tunisia, 22-24 April 2019
  15. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Precision Medicine, Precision Oncology Experimental Therapeutics Symposium, Calgary, Canada, 4-5 April 2019
  16. Can we do without Artificial Intelligence?, TeamUP Science: Annual Interdisciplinary Science Competition, Edmonton, Canada, 16 February 2019
  17. Precision Health: Will machine Learning Transform Medicine, CAHSPR Policy Forum: Artificial Intelligence and Learning Health Systems, Toronto, Canada, 14-15 January 2019
  18. How Machine Learning will transform businesses, Data Management Association (DAMA) Edmonton Chapter meeting, Edmonton, Canada, 22 November 2018
  19. Machine Learning as a Catalyst for Precision Health, IEEE 13th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, 18 November 2018
  20. Artificial Intelligence & Data Mining: Machine Learning as a Catalyst for Precision Health, International Population Data Linkage Conference, Banff, Canada, 12-14 September 2018
  21. Complex Network Analysis with Edge Uncertainty, 5th Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference, Saint-Etienne, France, July 16-18, 2018
  22. Artificial Intelligence and Medicine: Machine Learning as a Catalyst for Precision Health, Herrenhausen Symposium: "Individualized Infection Medicine - The future is now", Hannover, Germany, June 21-23, 2018
  23. Promises of Artificial Intelligence & the role of Research, UofA Alumni Association, Beijing, China, December 8, 2017
  24. Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute: Past, Present and Future, TusStar, Beijing, China, December 7, 2017
  25. Promises of Artificial Intelligence & the role of Research, UofA Alumni Association, Shanghai, China, December 5, 2017
  26. Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute: Past, Present and Future, TusStar, Shanghai, China, December 5, 2017
  27. Promises of Artificial Intelligence & the role of Research, UofA Alumni Association, Hong Kong, December 2, 2017
  28. Promises of Artificial Intelligence & the role of Research, UofA Alumni Association, Singapore, November 29, 2017
  29. Adopting New Technologies in Government: AI and Machine Learning, GovConnect Alberta, The Canadian Institute, Edmonton, Canada, November 2, 2017.
  30. Precision Medicine: Tailoring Medical Intervention using Machine Learning, INSIGHTS: Focus on Public Health, School of Public Health, Edmonton, Canada, November 2, 2017.
  31. Promises of Aritificial Intelligence and the Role of Research, UofA Faculty of Science Alumni, Toronto, Canada, October 28, 2017.
  32. Artificial Intelligence and What we can do for you, Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, Edmonton, Canada, October 19, 2017.
  33. Artificial Intelligence and Precision Medicine, Helmholtz Delegation Visit, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, September 27, 2017.
  34. Lexical and Learning-based Emotion Mining from Text, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Université Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne, France, June 22, 2017.
  35. Classification by Association, Keynote talk at 23rd International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Warsaw, Poland, June 26-29, 2017.
  36. Precision Medicine: Tailoring Medical Intervention using Machine Learning, Keynote talk at the International Conference on Digital Economy, Sidi BouSaid, Tunisia, May 4-6, 2017
  37. What Is Big Data and Why It's Important to the Public and Private Sectors, Leveraging Big Data & Analytics: Improve Performance by Harnessing Big Data, Analytics, and Business Intelligence (INFONEX), Edmonton, Canada, November 29, 2016.
  38. Advancing Science: From Big Data to Rich Data, Big Data Integration, Exploration and Analytics in Environmental Sciences - Open PEER scientific seminar, Munich, Germany, November 4, 2016.
  39. Lexical and Learning-based Emotion Mining from Text, Text Analysis and machine learning Seminar, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, June 23, 2016.
  40. Towards Clinical Decision Support Systems: Translating Clinical Practice Guidelines to Computer Interpretable Guidelines, International Conference on Digital Economy, La Marsa, Tunisia, April 28, 2016.
  41. Can we do (anything) without Computing Science?, TeamUP Science, Edmonton, Canada, February 14, 2016.
  42. Insights of Big data analyses in the 21st century of biomedical research, The Banff Foundation for Allograft Pathology and the Canadian Society of Transplantation, Vancouver, Canada, October 5, 2015.
  43. Big Data or Rich Data, Executive MBA program, School of Business, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, September 25, 2015.
  44. Rich Data: Risks, Issues, Controversies and Hype, Invited talk at the Universidad Del Pacífico, Lima, Peru, September 10, 2015.
  45. Rich Data: Risks, Issues, Controversies and Hype, Invited talk at the Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru, September 10, 2015.
  46. Rich Data: Risks, Issues, Controversies and Hype, Keynote at the International Symposium on Information Management and Big Data, Cusco, Peru, September 2-4, 2015.
  47. On the Practice of Evaluation for Community Mining in the Presence of Attributes, Keynote at the workshop on Multiplex & Attributed Network Mining in conjunction with IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, Paris, France, August 25, 2015.
  48. From Big Data Analytics in Healthcare to New Generic Data Mining Approaches, Keynote at the workshop on data Analytics for Evidence based Healthcare in conjunction with the 19th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 19-22, 2015.
  49. Big Data Analytics potential impact in the Alberta Industry, Invited speaker at the SPE Emerging Analytical Techniques in the Oil and Gas Industry Workshop, Canmore, Canada, May 6-7, 2015.
  50. Rich Data: Risks, Issues, Controversies and Hype, Keynote at the 10th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, Guilin, China, December 19-21, 2014.
  51. The Potential & Pitfalls of Big Data, Big Data: A multi-disciplinary workshop for academia and industry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, December 4, 2014.
  52. Why do the worlds of MOOCs and Big Data not collide?, Trends & Controversies: Data Science and Advanced Applications, Shanghai, China, November 30, 2014.
  53. Have you thought about it? Business and Machine Learning, CSGSA, CS Academic Mixer, University of Alberta, October 7, 2014.
  54. Data Mining Process and required Data, DoMiNO: Data Mining and Neonatal Outcomes Project Workshop, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, October 2, 2014.
  55. Highlighting Social networks and data Mining, World University Network Data Science Exploratory Workshop, Rochester, USA, August 22, 2014.
  56. On Associative Classifiers and on Multiclass Imbalanced Data, Basser Seminar Series, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, May 21, 2014.
  57. Canadian Network for Visual Analytics, GRAND Workshop, Canada's Digital Media Network of Centres od Excellence, Edmonton, Canada, April 7, 2014.
  58. On Associative Classifiers and on Multiclass Imbalanced Data, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Université Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne, France, February 21, 2014.
  59. Incremental Local Community Identification in Dynamic Complex Networks, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Université Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne, France, February 13, 2014.
  60. Data Mining and Privacy - How does data mining fit with privacy of information?, ICE Conference, Canadian Information Processing Society of Alberta (CIPS), Edmonton, Canada, November 18, 2013.
  61. Application of Text Mining for Healthcare,Seminaire LIRMM, University of Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France, October 8, 2013.
  62. Big Text Mining for Healthcare applications,Machine learning Summer School, Hammamet, Tunisia, September 16, 2013.
  63. From Big Data to Community Mining Validation: What's the link?, Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support, University of Porto, Portugal, June 21, 2013.
  64. Can we still expect Privacy?, Ethics, Privacy and Quality Assurance, Analytics, Big Data and the Cloud II, Edmonton May 13-15, 2013.
  65. The Role of Analytics in Personalizing Medicine, Healthcare - Data Policy and Economics, Analytics, Big Data and the Cloud II, Edmonton May 13-15, 2013.
  66. From Big Data to Community Mining Validation: What's the link?, Basser Seminar Series, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, April 19, 2013.
  67. Communities Validity: Methodical Evaluation of Community Mining Algorithms, invited talk at Quality Issues, Measures of Interestingness and Evaluation of Data Mining Models workshop, in conjunction with PAKDD, Gold Cost, Australia, April 14, 2013.
  68. Big Data Analytics Reality and Challenges, Keynote speech at The 3rd International Conference on the Extraction and Management of Knowledge - Maghreb, November 12-15, 2012, Hammamet, Tunisia
  69. Raw Data Refineries, CyberSummit 2012: Leading the Way in the Age of Big Data, Banff Alberta, Canada, October 2012
  70. The Relevance of Analytics in Personalized Medicine, Analytics, Big Data, and The Cloud Conference, Edmonton, April 24th, 2012
  71. Towards discovering spatial relationships between cancer cases and combined chemicals with or without known carcinogenicity, Second UofA/LMU Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring, Munich, Germany, March 8th, 2012
  72. Decision Support and Artificial Intelligence, Managing IT Resources, Information Technology Management Certificate, Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, Edmonton, February 13th, 2012
  73. Information Network Analysis: Applications and Challenges, keynote speech, 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, Cordoba, Spain, November 23th, 2011
  74. Information Network Analysis: Applications and Challenges, Research Colloquium, Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, November 14th, 2011
  75. Information Network Analysis: Applications and Challenges, Research Colloquium, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, March 9th, 2011
  76. Machine learning and Applications for Society, Honours Seminars - CMPUT 495, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, February 28th, 2011
  77. Tips from a Selection Committee Member, NSERC Strategic Projects Grant Program, NSERC Visit, Edmonton, Alberta, February 17th, 2011
  78. Why we need to Access Health data, Health data Access Advisory Committee, Alberta Health and Wellness, Edmonton, Alberta, January 27th, 2011
  79. On the Usefulness of Mining Information Networks, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore, December 20th, 2010
  80. Mining Information Networks the Meerkat Way, Computer Science Colloquium, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA, November 18th 2010
  81. Meerkat - Extracting Meaningful Value from Social Nertworks, ABCtech Machine Learning Conference "Off-loading Intelligence - When Machines Decide!", Edmonton, Canada, November 3rd 2010
  82. Fraud Detection in securities Markets - Can Data Mining Help?, Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) Enforcement Committee, Montreal, Canada, October 1st 2010
  83. A blessing of high dimensionality for outlier detection and class separation, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 6th, 2010
  84. Social Network Analysis for the Assessment of Learning, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 4th, 2010
  85. Machine Learning and Achievements, Computing Science Advisory Board meeting, Edmonton, Canada, June 17th 2010
  86. Social Network Analysis for the Assessment of Learning, keynote speech, Third International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2010), Pittsburg, PA, USA, June 11, 13, 2010
  87. Computer Aided Breast Cancer Detection, BioMedical Workshop "BioMedical Research and Our Health: Potential and Challenges", Edmonton, Canada, September 30th, 2009
  88. On Associative Classifiers: Achievements and Potential, Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada, April 7, 2009
  89. The Challenge of Mining Billions of Transactions, keynote speech, International Workshop on Algorithms for Large Scale Information Processing in Knowledge Discovery, (in conjunction with PAKDD 2008), Osaka, Japan, May 20, 2008
  90. Health Informatics: A Challenging Marriage, Health Informatics Forum, Edmonton, AB, Canada, March 13, 2008
  91. Le forage des réseaux sociaux, keynote speech, 8èmes journées francophones Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances (EGC '08), Sophia-Antipolis, France, February, 1st, 2008
  92. Where are we heading with the Associative Classifiers?, Virginia Tech., Roanoke, Virginia, USA, August 31, 2007
  93. Classement par association : une alternative prometteuse, Université de Caen, France, November 13, 2006.
  94. Where are we heading with the Associative Classifiers?, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, June 19 2006.
  95. Where are we heading with the Associative Classifiers?, University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan, May 22, 2006.
  96. The potential of Associative Classifiers, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada, January 25, 2006.
  97. The potential of Associative Classifiers, School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, December 1st, 2005. (ITEE Seminars)
  98. Data Transformation for Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Basser Seminar Series, School of Information Technology, University of Sydney, Australia, November 23, 2005.
  99. The potential of Associative Classifiers, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, November 11, 2005.
  100. An Intelligent Tutoring System for Functional Dependencies and its Analysis Tools, Intelligent Learning Environment Research Group, School of Information Technology, University of Sydney, Australia, October 26, 2005.
  101. Feeding Data Mining Research from E-Learning Applications, Intelligent Learning Environment Research Group, School of Information Technology, University of Sydney, Australia, October 12, 2005.
  102. The potential of Associative Classifiers, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand, September 9, 2005.
  103. The Potential of Associative Classifiers, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, August 31, 2005.
  104. Associative Classifiers: On Rule Generation, Pruning and Selection, School of Computing Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia, August 26, 2005.
  105. Coupling Machine Learning and Data Mining, Machine Learning Research Group, School of Information Technology, University of Sydney, Australia, August 2, 2005.
  106. Coupling Typical Data Mining with classical Machine learning, Machine Learning Group, School of Information Technology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, July 29, 2005.
  107. Considering three information channels for a better non-intrusive recommender system, Knowledge Management Group, School of Information Technology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, July 29, 2005.
  108. Considering three information channels for a better non-intrusive recommender system, International School of Software, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, July 23, 2005.
  109. Relevance of Counting in Data Mining Tasks , keynote speech, First International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2005), Wuhan, China, July 22-24, 2005
  110. Mission-Based Navigational Behaviour Modeling for Web Recommender Systems, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France, June 1, 2005
  111. Building Blocks for Data Mining Research, Peking University, Beijing, China, March 11, 2005
  112. Investigations In Data Mining: China-Canada Research Cooperation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, March 8, 2005
  113. On the Usefulness of Frequent itemsets for Building Classifier Models. School of Computing and Information Technology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, June 1, 2004
  114. Associative Classification of Multimedia Documents, Interactive Digital Multimedia Seminar Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, February 20, 2004
  115. Supporting On-Line Learning Systems with Data Mining, Département d'Informatique et Recherche opérationnelle, Colloques du DIRO, Faculté des Arts et des Sciences, University de Montréal, Montreal, PQ, Canada, November 13, 2003.
  116. Concepts and Applications of Web Mining, Department of Computer Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, Australia, November 4, 2003
  117. More on Frequent Pattern Mining: An Asset for Novel Categorization and Recommender Systems Design, Faculty of Engineering, Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, October 30, 2003
  118. Pushing the boundary for Mining Frequent Itemsets, School of Information Technologies, Basser seminar series, University of , Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, October 29, 2003
  119. Do We Need New Algorithms in Data Mining?, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, October 22, 2003
  120. Data Mining of Large Volumes of Data, ICT Forum - Storage and Management of Large Multimedia Databases, Edmonton, Canada, May 27, 2003
  121. Virtual Exploration of Scientific and Financial Data, ICT Forum - Man and Machine: New Technologies for Visual Human-Computer Interaction, Edmonton, Canada, May 30, 2002
  122. On Data Clustering Analysis: Scalability, Constraints and Validation, keynote speech, Sixth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'02), Taipei, Taiwan, May, 2002
  123. Data Mining assisting e-Learning, in Panel "The Impact of New technologies on TeleLearning", at the TeleLearning Conference 2001, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 10-13 November 2001.
  124. State of the Art in Multimedia Data Mining at the Workshop MultiMediaMining, DaimlerChrysler Research Center Ulm, Germany, 21,22 December 2000.
  125. Data Mining from the Web at the Departamento de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and Radix.com, Recife, Brazil, October 6, 2000.
  126. Mining Multimedia Data in SBBD'2000: XIV Brazilian Symposium on Databases, Promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society in cooperation with ACM SIGMOD, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, October 3, 2000.
  127. From Resource Discovery to Knowledge Discovery on the Internet, for CelCorp, Edmonton, April 4, 2000

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