Tutorial: Prof. Ulf Johansson
Prof. Ulf Johansson
Department of Computer Science and Informatics, Jonkoping University, Sweden
Date & Time: July 26 (Tuesday), 2016; 06:00pm - 08:00pm
LOCATION: Ballroom 1
Description
How good is your prediction? In risk-sensitive applications, it is crucial to be able to assess the quality of a prediction, but traditional classification and regression models don't provide their users with any information regarding prediction trustworthiness.
Hence, confidence predictors is an important tool that every data scientist should carry in their toolboxes, and conformal prediction represents a straight-forward way of associating the predictions of any predictive machine learning algorithm with confidence measures. |
Biography
Prof. Ulf Johansson holds a M.Sc. in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from Chalmers University of Technology, and a PhD degree in Computer Science from the Institute of Technology, Linköping University, Sweden.
Ulf Johansson’s research focuses on developing machine learning algorithms for data analytics. Most of the research is applied, and often co-produced with industry. Application areas include drug discovery, health science, marketing, high-frequency trading, game AI, sales forecasting and gambling. In 2011, he had his 15 minutes of fame when called as an expert witness in the Swedish Supreme Court regarding whether Poker is a game of skill or chance. In the court, Prof. Johansson argued that skill predominates over chance using, among other sources, his paper “Fish or Shark – Data Mining Online Poker”, originally presented at DMIN 2009.
Ulf Johansson has published extensively in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, soft computing and data mining. He is also a regular program committee member of the leading conferences in computational intelligence and machine learning. During the last few years, Prof. Johansson has published several papers on conformal prediction, some presented in top-tier venues like the Machine Learning journal and the ICDM conference.