INTERACTIVE AND VISUAL APPROACHES TO DATA MINING

October 30 – November 03, 2017

Indian Statistical Institute, 203, B. T. Road, Kolkata-700108

Speakers Details

Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay did her B Tech, M Tech and Ph. D. in Computer Science from Calcutta University, IIT Kharagpur and ISI respectively. She joined the Indian Statistical Institute in 1999, where she is now the Director. She has also worked in various Universities and Institutes world-wide including

in USA, Australia, Germany, France, China, Italy and Mexico.

She has delivered invited lectures in many more countries. She has authored/co-authored more than 250 technical articles, and published six authored and edited books from publishers like Springer, World Scientific and Wiley. She has also edited journals special issues in the areas of soft computing, data mining, and bioinformatics. Her research interests include computational biology and bioinformatics, soft and evolutionary computation, pattern recognition and data mining. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India (NASI), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology. Sanghamitra is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Dr. ShankerDayal Sharma Gold Medal and also the Institute Silver Medal from IIT, Kharagpur, India, the Young Scientist Awards of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), the Young Engineer Award of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), the Swarnajayanti fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), and the Humboldt Fellowship from Germany. She has been selected as a Senior Associate of ICTP, Italy. She was awarded the prestigious Shanti SwarupBhatnagar Prize in Engineering Science, one of the most coveted awards for scientists in India. She is a JC Bose Fellow of the Department of Science and Technology.

Blaž Zupan is a full professor at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, and heads the Laboratory for Bioinformatics (http://biolab.si). He is also a visiting professor at Baylor College of Medicine in HUSA.

Houston, USA.  

His main research interests are data mining, machine learning, data fusion, and data visualization. His lab develops Orange (http://orange.biolab.si), a popular open source data mining suite. Using visual programming, users of Orange can combine analytical components and build powerful workflows for data analytics, interactive visualization and machine learning. Zupan also initiated Frižider (“The Fridge”), the Faculty’s makerspace that is fully equipped with hardware and software for IoT experimentation and tinkering. Zupan has received a number of state, professional and student awards for research and teaching, with the most recent one being the New Europe 100 Challenger (for making data more approachable) — Changemakers in Central and Eastern Europe, presented by Res Publica, Google, Visegrad Fund and the Financial Times.