About me

Since March 2011 I am a lecturer in Computational Intelligence at Bournemouth University, UK and
a research task leader on advanced modeling and adaptive learning in the INFER.eu project.
Prior to that I was a postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
I obtained my PhD from Vilnius University, Lithuania in April 2010.

Main Research Interests

  • adaptive predictive modeling, evolving data streams
  • handling concept drift and hidden contexts
  • change detection and change management
  • context aware learning
  • predictive analytics applications
My research in adaptive predictive modeling falls into three main tracks:
  1. shifting from blind reactive adaptation to context modelling;
  2. focusing on application driven advanced adaptive learning scenarios (such as no immediate feedback);
  3. understanding and describing adaptation mechanisms in different settings, disciplines (such as philosophy) and applications.

Publications

list and pre-prints

Projects

I am involved in these projects and industrial collaborations:

Professional Activities

CIDUE'11ECMLPKDD'11, FSKD'11, HAIS'11, IJCAI'11ISDA'11, SAC'11-Data Streams
CBMS'10, FSKD'10, IVUS'10

Reviewer for conferences

IJCNN'12,
IJCNN'11,
ECML/PKDD'10, EDM'10, IJCNN'10, AAAI'10,
BNAIC'09, ECMLPKDD'09

Reviewer for journals

  • Pattern Recognition, Elsevier (2009-2012)
  • Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Elsevier (2012)
  • Knowledge Information Systems, Springer (2011)
  • Information Sciences, Elsevier (2011-2012)
  • Information Systems, Elsevier (2011-2012)
  • Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, Wiley (2011)
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2010-2011)
  • Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, Springer (2010)
  • Journal of Pattern Recognition Research (2009-2010)
  • Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier (2009)
  • European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier (2008-2009)
  • Journal of Graphical and Computational Statistics, ASA (2008)

Workshop organizer

  • Co-Chair of DPADM (Discrimination and Privacy Aware Data Mining) workshop at ICDM'12
  • Co-Chair of HaCDAIS'11 workshop at ICDM'11 in Vancouver, Canada
  • Co-organizer of INFER-APS'11 workshop in Bournemouth, UK
  • Co-Chair of HaCDAIS'10 workshop at ECMLPKDD'10 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
  • Co-organizer of DHDHD'10 workshop in Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Tutorialist


NEW Advanced Topics in Data Stream Mining at ECMLPKDD'12
tutorialists: A. Bifet, J. Gama, R. Gavalda, G. Krempl, M. Pechenizkiy, B. Pfahringer, M. Spiliopoulou, I. Žliobaitė 

Handling Concept Drift: Importance, Challenges and Solutions at PAKDD'11
tutorialists: A.Bifet, J.Gama, M. Pechenizkiy, I. Žliobaitė

Handling Concept Drift, in Medical Applications: Importance, Challenges and Solutions at CBMS'10
tutorialists: M. Pechenizkiy, I. Žliobaitė

Learning from Evolving data at ECMLPKDD'10
tutorialists: M. Spiliopoulou, J. Gama, E. Menasalvas, A. Vakali, guest speakers: M. Pechenizkiy, I. Žliobaitė

Selected Talks

2012

  • Adaptive learning from drifting data, University of Konstanz, Germany slides

2011

2010

  • Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Methods for Adaptive Prediction Systems, Bournemouth University, UK.
  • Learning with actionable attributes
  • Learning from Evolving Data: an application perspective. Tutorial block with M.Pechenizkiy at ECML/PKDD. slides
  • Identifying hidden contexts. DHDHD workshop, TU Eindhoven. slides
  • Mokymas besikeičiančioje aplinkoje
    • Vilniaus universitetas, seminaras. slides
    • Matematikos ir informatikos institutas, seminaras.
    • Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas, seminaras.

2009

  • Training Instance Selection under Concept Drift
    • TU Eindhoven, invited talk. slides
    • Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Statistical Machine Learning and Bioinformatics group, seminar.

2008

  • Pattern Recognition in the Presence of Concept Drift. Bangor University (UK), School of Computer Science, seminar. slides

2007

  • Pattern Recognition under Concept Drift. Druskininkai, Modern Data Mining Technologies, summer school.

Thesis Supervision

PhD 

  • Manuel Martin Salvador (started Jan 2012, ongoing) on adaptive pre-processing [2nd supervisor]
  • Rashid Bakirov (started Apr 2012, ongoing) on adaptive ensembles [2nd supervisor]

Master

  • Ridhi Gupta (2012, completed) on active learning with streams

Bachelor 

  • Ivan Jimenez Diez (2012, completed) on sentiment classification
  • Andrew Thompson (2012, completed) on game sales prediction 
  • Matthew Beasley (2012, completed) on game recommender system

Teaching

  • 2012 Fall: Advanced data management (data mining)
  • 2011-2012: Data management labs