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Seminar
Soft Computing Pattern Recognition and Data Mining.
Speaker: Professor Sankar Kumar Pal, Distinguished Lecturer.
Institute: IEEE Computer Society.
Time/Place: 10:00 AM, Mon, 28 Jul, in Room 031, Erskine Building.
Abstract
Different characteristics of soft computing and its relation with
machine intelligence and pattern recognition are explained. Emergence
of data mining and knowledge discovery from pattern recognition point
of view is illustrated. Significance of integrating various soft
computing tools for efficient learning in this regard is described.
Two examples, demonstrating such integration of fuzzy sets, artificial
neural networks, genetic algorithms and rough sets for:
(i) efficient classification, rule generation and rule evaluation, and
(ii) granular case generation in case based reasoning problems,
are provided along with their application specific merits. Different
features of these methodologies are extensively demonstrated along
with comparisons on different real life data sets.
The talk concludes explaining the relation of rough-fuzzy computing with the recently emerged computational theory of perceptions (CTP) and the future scope of research in data mining including web mining.
Biography
Sankar K. Pal is a Professor and Distinguished Scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. He is also the Founding Head of Machine Intelligence Unit. He received the M. Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Radio physics and Electronics in 1974 and 1979 respectively, from the University of Calcutta. In 1982 he received another Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering along with DIC from Imperial College, University of London. During 1986-87, he worked at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Maryland, College Park, as a Fulbright Post-doctoral Visiting Fellow; and during 1990-92 & in 1994 at the NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas as an NRC Guest Investigator. He is a Distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer Society (USA) for the Asia-Pacific Region since 1997, and held several visiting positions in Hong Kong and Australian universities during 1999-2003. Prof. Pal is a Fellow of the IEEE, USA, Third World Academy of Sciences, Italy, International Association for Pattern Recognition, USA, and all the four National Academies for Science/Engineering in India. His research interests include Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Image Processing, Data Mining, Soft Computing, Neural Nets, Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy Sets, and Rough Sets, Web Intelligence and Bioinformatics. He is a co-author of ten books and about three hundred research publications. Professor Pal has received the 1990 S. S. Bhatnagar Prize (which is the most coveted award for a scientist in India), and many prestigious awards in India and abroad; including the 1993 Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, 1993 Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, 1993 NASA Tech Brief Award (USA), 1994 IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award (USA), 1995 NASA Patent Application Award (USA), 1997 IETE - Ram Lal Wadhwa Gold Medal, 1998 Om Bhasin Foundation Award, 1999 G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research, 2000 Khwarizmi International Award (1st winner) from the Islamic Republic of Iran, the 2001 INSA-Syed Husain Zaheer Medal, and the FICCI Award 2000-2001 in Engineering and Technology. Prof. Pal is serving (has served) as an Editor, Associate Editor and a Guest Editor of IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, IEEE Computer, Pattern Recognition Letters, Neurocomputing, Applied Intelligence, Information Sciences, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Fundamenta Informaticae and Int. J. Computational Intelligence and Applications; as well as a Member, Executive Advisory Editorial Board, IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems, Int. Journal on Image and Graphics, and Int. Journal of Approximate Reasoning.
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