[Colloquium] TTIC Talks: Tom Dietterich, Oregon State

[Liv Leader]

*REMINDER: *

When:     Thursday, January 26 @ 1 p.m.

Where:   TTIC Conference Room #530, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor

Who:      Tom Dietterich, Oregon State

Title:       Challenges for Machine Learning in Ecological Science and

Environmental Management

There are many problems in ecological science and ecosystem management

that could be transformed by machine learning.  This talk will give an

overview of several research projects at Oregon State University in

this area and discuss the novel machine learning problems that arise.

These include (a) automated data cleaning and anomaly detection in

sensor data streams, (b) species distribution modeling including

modeling of bird migration from citizen science data, and (c) design

of optimal policies for managing wildfires and invasive species.  The

machine learning challenges include flexible anomaly detection for

multiple data streams, explicit models of sampling bias and

measurement processes, combining probabilistic graphical models with

non-parametric learning methods, and optimization of complex

spatio-temporal Markov processes.

Host: Nati Srebro, nati at ttic.edu



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Liv Leader
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