[PhD Defense of Luis Quintero] Luis Quintero will have his PhD thesis defense on the 28th of November 2023 at 09:00. His thesis is entitled “User Modeling for Adaptive Virtual Reality Experiences: Personalization from Behavioral and Physiological Time Series”. The main opponent will be Jefrey Lijffijt, and his examiners will be Indre Zliobaite, Per Carlbring, Tapio Takala, and Robert Ramberg (suppleant). Link to thesis

[PhD Defense of Zed Lee] Zed Lee will have his PhD thesis defense on the 24th of November 2023 at 13:00. His thesis is entitled “Z-series Mining and learning from complex sequential data”. The main opponent will be Toon Calders, and his examiners will be Tijl De Bie, Elisa Fromont, Mattias Villani, and Hercules Dalianis (suppleant). Link to thesis

[Predoc Seminar of Zed Lee] Our PhD Student Zed Lee will have his predoc seminar on “Z-Series: Mining and learning from complex sequential data” on the 21st of April 2023 at 10:00. The predoc seminar consists of a presentation by the doctoral student and the opposition from professors Elisa Fromont and Hercules Dalianis.

[Half-Time Seminar of Alejandro Kuratomi] Our PhD Student Alejandro Kuratomi will have his half-time seminar on “Improving Machine Learning Interpretability - Algorithms and Applications” on the 9th of November 2022 at 10:00. The half-time seminar consists of a presentation by the doctoral student and a question and answers session involving the half-time committee, Eirini Ntoutsi and Rahim Rahmani.

[PhD Defense of Jonathan Rebane] Jonathan Rebane will have his PhD thesis defense on the 28th of October 2022 at 13:00. His thesis is entitled “Learning from Complex Medical Data Sources”. The main opponent will be Myra Spiliopoulou, and his examiners will be Arno Knobbe, Stanley Greenstein, Indre Zliobaite, and Hercules Dalianis (suppleant).

[Half-Time Seminar of Zhendong Wang] Our PhD Student Zhendong Wang will have his half-time seminar on “Counterfactual Explanations for Complex and Temporally Ordered Data” on the 6th of October 2022 at 13:00. The half-time seminar consists of a presentation by the doctoral student and a question and answers session involving the half-time committee, Allan Tucker, Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, and Rahim Rahmani.

[Medical Artificial Intelligence PhD Forum 2022 @ Porto: Sep 5-6 2022] The Data Science group is participating in the Medical AI PhD Forum in Porto, where our PhD students will present their ongoing research and discuss potential cross-group collaboration and research visits. The PhD Forum is a joint initiative between Stockholm University, the University of Magdeburg, Brunel University, and the University of Porto.

[CBMS Special Track - Federated Learning for Medical Data] Members of the Data Science group are organizing the CBMS Special Track on Federated Learning for Medical Data that will take place on 21-23 July 2022 in Shenzhen, China, and online! Paper submission deadline: 25 April 2022. More information is available here.

[DSV and Spotify in scientific collaboration] Three industrial doctoral students from Spotify study the future of machine learning together with researchers at the Department for Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University. More information is available here.

[Zhendong Wang wins best paper award] Zhendong Wang presented a paper at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) 2021 – and won the best student paper award. The paper is titled “Counterfactual Explanations for Survival Prediction of Cardiovascular ICU Patients”. More information is available here.

[Data Science @ DSV - PhD Workshop: Mar 26 2021] The Data Science group is organizing a PhD Workshop where our PhD students will present their ongoing research. More information is available here.

[AI Masters Program - Deadline: Jan 15 2021] Our one-year Master’s Program in AI is accepting applications. More information is available here.