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AI Seminar-Going West: From Mansoura to LA via College Park

Speaker: Wael AbdAlmageed, USC/ISI

Talk Title: Going West: From Mansoura to LA via College Park

Series: Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Abstract: Over the last few years, three key research areas have captured my scientific interest: machine learning, bioinformatics and computer vision. In this talk, I will be giving an overview of all three. For machine learning, I will present work on using locality-preserving indexing techniques to accelerate various, widely used machine learning methods, in addition to more recent work on supervised feature selection using optimal design of experiments. Moving on to bioinformatics, I will share recent work on discovering subgroups of hepatocellular carcinoma patients by jointly analyzing miRNA and mRNA data using graph mining and graphical modeling techniques. In the area of computer vision, I will discuss recent research results on large-scale and partial signature matching, exploiting locality-sensitive hashing and graphical models. Last, but of equal importance, I will present an overview of ISI's GLAIVE project for large-scale face recognition in the wild.

Biography: Dr. Wael AbdAlmageed is a senior computer scientist with the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI). His research focus is machine learning (ML) and applying ML methods to computer vision, bioinformatics and other data analysis problems. His research interests also include implementing machine learning and computer vision algorithms on modern distributed and high-performance computing platforms, such as MapReduce and GPUs. Prior to joining ISI, from 2004 to 2013, Wael was a research scientist with the University of Maryland at College Park, where he led research and development efforts for various programs such as DARPA's MADCAT, VIVID, VIRAT and PerSEAS, IARPA's VACE, and ARL's RCTA. Wael obtained his Ph.D. with distinction from the University of New Mexico in 2003, where he also received the Outstanding Graduate Student award. He has two patents and over 50 publications in top machine learning, computer vision and high-performance computing conferences and journals. Wael currently leads ISI's face recognition research and development efforts under IARPA's JANUS program.

Host: Yigal Arens

Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=f02ab403689f40a3b2996589bc729b441d

Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey

WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=f02ab403689f40a3b2996589bc729b441d

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Peter Zamar