PhD Témy 2024: Pokročilé témy strojového učenia

Školiteľ: Mária Bieliková (UPGM Ústav počítačové grafiky a multimédií)

Strojové učenie je v centre výskumu v oblasti umelej inteligencie. Témam spojeným so strojovým učením sa venuje množstvo výskumníkov v akademickom svete a aj v biznise v  prestížnych vedeckých pracoviskách. Riešenia vedeckých výziev sa veľmi rýchlo dostávajú do praxe. Oblasť je veľmi dynamická.

Témy v tejto doméne definujú významné vedecké konferencie, na ktorých sa stretávajú výskumníci z celého sveta (rank A*) ako napríklad ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning), NeurIPS (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems), IJCAI (International Joint Conference on AI), COLT (Conference on Learning Theory). Témy a ich špecializáciu budú viesť externí mentori. 

Zaujímavé výskumné výzvy zahŕňajú témy (ale sa neobmedzujú takto):  

  • General Machine Learning (e.g., active learning, clustering, online learning, ranking, reinforcement learning, semi-supervised learning, unsupervised learning)
  • Deep Learning (e.g., architectures, generative models, deep reinforcement learning)
  • Learning Theory (e.g., bandits, statistical learning theory)
  • Optimization (e.g., matrix/tensor methods, sparsity)
  • Trustworthy Machine Learning (e.g., fairness, robustness)

Existuje veľa aplikačných domén, kde sa pokročilé metódy strojového učenia dajú využiť. 
Výskum bude doktorand vykonávať v rámci Kempelenovho inštitútu inteligentných technológií (KInIT, https://kinit.sk) v Bratislave pod vedením výskumníkov zo svetovo uznávaných výskumných skupín. Predpokladá sa kombinovaná (externá) forma štúdia a pracovný pomer na plný úväzok v KInIT.

Tím školiteľov

Mária Bieliková Lead researcher, KInIT Viac info
Close Mária Bieliková Lead researcher, KInIT

Mária Bieliková is an expert researcher at KInIT. She focuses on human-computer interaction analysis, user modeling and personalization. Recently, she has been working in data analysis and modeling of antisocial behavior on the Web. She is active in discussions on trustworthy AI at the national and European levels. Maria has supervised 19 successful doctoral graduates to date. She co-authored 70+ journal publications, 200+ conference papers, received 4,400+ citations (Google Scholar h-index 30), and serves on the editorial board of two CC journals. She has been the principal investigator in 40+ research projects.

Jana Kosecka Professor, George Mason University, USA Viac info
Close Jana Kosecka Professor, George Mason University, USA

Jana Kosecka is a Professor at the George Mason University. She is interested in computational models of vision systems, acquisition of static and dynamic models of environments by means of visual sensing, high-level semantic scene understanding and human-computer interaction. She held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Google and Nokia Research, and served as Program chair, Area chair or senior member of editorial board for  leading conferences in the field CVPR, ICCV, ICRA.

Jana is currently mentor of our PhD student: Ivana Beňová

Branislav Kveton Principal Scientist, Amazon’s lab, USA Viac info
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Branislav Kveton is a Principal Scientist at Amazon’s lab in Berkeley. He proposes, analyzes, and applies algorithms that learn incrementally, run in real time, and converge to near-optimal solutions as they learn. He made several fundamental contributions to the field of multi-armed bandits. His earlier work focused on structured bandit problems with graphs, submodularity, and low-rank matrices, and ranked lists. His recent work focuses on making bandit algorithms practical

Peter Richtárik Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Viac info
Close Peter Richtárik Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Peter Richtárik is a Professor of Computer Science & Mathematics at KAUST. He is one of the founders and a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Through his work on randomized and distributed optimization algorithms, he has contributed to the foundations of machine learning and federated learning. He serves as an Area Chair of leading machine learning conferences, including NeurIPS, ICML and ICLR.

Martin Takáč Associate Professor, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates Viac info
Close Martin Takáč Associate Professor, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates

Martin Takáč is an Associate Professor and Deputy Department Chair of Machine Learning Department at MBZUAI, where he is a core faculty at the Optimization & Machine Learning Lab. His current research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms for machine learning, applications of ML, optimization, HPC. He serves as an Area Chair of ML conferences such as AISTATS, ICML, and NeurIPS.

Peter Tino Professor, University of Birmingham, UK Viac info
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Peter Tino is a Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK. He is interested in the interplay between mathematical modelling and machine learning (dynamical systems, probabilistic modelling, statistical pattern recognition, natural computation). Peter is interested in both foundational aspects and applications in interdisciplinary contexts (e.g. astrophysics, biomedical sciences, cognitive neuroscience).

He is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and has served on editorial boards of leading journals such as IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TCYB, Neural Networks and Scientific Reports.

Peter Dolog Associate Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark Viac info
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Peter Dolog is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark. His current research interests include machine learning and data mining in the areas of user behavior analysis and prediction, recommender systems, preference learning, and personalization. Peter is a senior member of ACM, served as a senior program commitee member of AI related conferences as well as a general chair of UMAP, HT and Web Engineering conferences.