Year: 2014

Dr. Eduardo Alonso and his team’s research on Neural Network Control for Grid-Connnected Converters, has WON FIRST PRIZE in the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) ICT Labs Idea Challenge on Smart Energy Systems, 2014. Many congratulations to Eduardo and his team!…Continue Reading Eduardo Alonso wins EIT – ICT Labs Idea Challenge

In the next Machine Learning Group seminar, we have a talk by Régis Riveret who is a Marie-Curie Fellow in the Intelligent Systems and Networks Group at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Imperial College. Speaker: Dr. Régis Riveret Title: Probabilistic Abstract Argumentation and Boltzmann machines Date/time: Dec 4, 2014 (15:00-16:00) Location: A226 Abstract:…Continue Reading Seminar (4th December, 2014)

The City ML group will be discussing the following article on Wednesday the 19th of November, 2014: Author: David Deutsch Title: On Artificial Intelligence Link: http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/david-deutsch-artificial-intelligence/ Introduced by: Andre Luzardo Date/time: Nov 19, 2014 (16:00-17:00) Location: A226…Continue Reading Reading Group (19th November, 2014)

The Machine Learning group, in collaboration with the Partnerships team of City University London, is organising ‘Data Bites‘, a new lunch time programme of talks from leading specialists in the Data Science field. Dates and Speakers: 24th November – Amazon 1st December – Hailo Venue: Room BLG07, University Building City University London, Northampton Square, London,…Continue Reading Data Bites – lunch time talks

In the next Machine Learning Group seminar, we have a talk by Dan Stowell who is an EPSRC Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. Date & Time: Friday 26th September, 13:00-14:00 Location: Room A112 (College Building) Title: Machine learning for bird sounds: at large scale and fine detail Abstract: Bird sound recordings embed…Continue Reading Seminar (26th September, 2014)

The Machine Learning Group are collaboratively organising a seminar in Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning from September 14th to September 19th 2014. The goal of this Dagstuhl seminar is to build bridges between symbolic and sub-symbolic reasoning and learning representations using computer vision as a catalyst application. Dagstuhl is the world’s premier venue for informatics, where…Continue Reading Dagstuhl seminar in Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning

The Royal Academy of Engineers has today announced Dr. Emmanouil Benetos as a recipient of one of its prestigious research fellowships. Many congratulations to Emmanouil, and all the very best to him….Continue Reading Emmanouil Benetos awarded the prestigious RAEng fellowship

In the next Machine Learning Group seminar, we have a talk by Sepehr Jalali who is a post-doctoral researcher at City. Date & Time: Wednesday 18th June, 16:00-17:00 Location: Room AG05 (College Building) Title: Inspirations from human visual cortex for image classification Abstract: Image classification is one of the most challenging problems in computer science…Continue Reading Seminar (18th June, 2014)

In the next Machine Learning Group seminar, we have a talk by Suresh Veluru who is a Research Fellow at City. Date & Time: Wednesday 14th May, 13:00-14:30 Location: Room AG06 (College Building) Title: Correlated Community Estimation Models over a Set of Names Abstract: Generally surnames (family name) or forenames are evolved over generations which…Continue Reading Seminar (14th May, 2014)

The Machine Learning Group is pleased to announce the recent success of two grant applications to the Technology Strategy Board: – Advancing Consumer Protection through Machine Learning: Reducing Harm in Gambling (PI: Artur Garcez), with £130k awarded to City University London. – FareViz: on the design of big data exploration tools for the analysis of…Continue Reading New TSB Grants Awarded