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Personal profile
Research interests
Data-intensive computing and analytics;
Mining complex and highly structured data;
Evaluation, calibration and reuse of machine learning models;
Feature construction and subgroup discovery in data streams;
Intelligent reasoning, artificial intelligence.
Biography
Peter Flach has been Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bristol since 2003. An internationally leading researcher in the areas of mining highly structured data and the evaluation and improvement of machine learning models using ROC analysis, he has also published on the logic and philosophy of machine learning, and on the combination of logic and probability. He is author of Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (John Wiley, 1994) and Machine Learning: the Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Prof Flach is the Editor-in-Chief of the Machine Learning journal, one of the two top journals in the field that has been published for over 25 years by Kluwer and now Springer. He was Programme Co-Chair of the 1999 International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, the 2001 European Conference on Machine Learning, the 2009 ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, and the 2012 European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases in Bristol. He is a founding board member of the European Association for Data Science.
Prof Flach's research has been funded by EPSRC, MRC, TSB and the EU, among others. He is currently leading the Data Fusion and Data Mining work package in the SPHERE IRC funded by EPSRC, the Bioinformatics and Data Mining cross-cutting theme in the Integrative Epidemiology Unit funded by MRC (with Dr Tom Gaunt), and the REFRAME project with the Universities of Valencia and Strasbourg funded by CHIST-ERA.
Expertise
My main expertise is in mining highly structured data, as found in many scientific disciplines; and in data-intensive computing, which is an emerging computational paradigm in which the sheer volume of data is the dominant performance parameter. I have been working in these areas as part of the University-wide research theme in Exabyte Informatics, which I lead.
- machine learning
- data mining
- structured data
- exabyte informatics
- scientific discovery
- data-intensive computing
- networks
Keywords
- Machine Learning
- Data Mining
- Data Science
- Artificial Intelligence
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Projects
Research Output
Smart homes, private homes? An empirical study of technology researchers' perceptions of ethical issues in developing smart-home health technologies
Birchley, G., Huxtable, R., Murtagh, M., ter Meulen, R., Flach, P. & Gooberman-Hill, R., 4 Apr 2017, In : BMC Medical Ethics. 18, 13 p., 23.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
Open Access
File
Beta calibration: a well-founded and easily implemented improvement on logistic calibration for binary classifiers
Kull, M., De Menezes E Silva Filho, T. & Flach, P., 1 Apr 2017, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2017). Journal of Machine Learning Research, 9 p. (JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings; vol. 54).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
Open Access
File
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(Pure)
SPHERE: A sensor platform for healthcare in a residential environment
Woznowski, P. R., Burrows, A., Diethe, T., Fafoutis, X., Hall, J., Hannuna, S., Camplani, M., Twomey, N., Kozlowski, M., Tan, B., Zhu, N., Elsts, A., Vafeas, A., Paiement, A., Tao, L., Mirmehdi, M., Burghardt, T., Damen, D., Flach, P., Piechocki, R. & 2 others, , 2017, Designing, Developing, and Facilitating Smart Cities: Urban Design to IoT Solutions. Angelakis, V., Tragos, E., Pöhls, H. C., Kapovits, A. & Bassi, A. (eds.). Springer, p. 315-333 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
Datasets
The SPHERE Challenge: Activity Recognition with Multimodal Sensor Data
Twomey, N. (Creator), Diethe, T. (Creator), Craddock, I. J. (Contributor), Woznowski, P. (Contributor), Kull, M. (Contributor), Song, H. (Contributor), Camplani, M. (Contributor), Hannuna, S. L. (Contributor), Zhu, N. (Contributor), Flach, P. A. (Contributor), Fafoutis, X. (Contributor) & Holley, A. (Data Manager), University of Bristol, 1 Mar 2016
DOI: 10.5523/bris.8gccwpx47rav19vk8x4xapcog, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/8gccwpx47rav19vk8x4xapcog
Dataset
Prizes
ECML-PKDD 2014 Best paper award
Flach, Peter A (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Activities
Machine Learning (Journal)
Peter A Flach (Editor)
1 Jul 2010 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Classifier Calibration
Peter A Flach (Organiser), Miquel Perello Nieto (Organiser), Hao Song (Organiser), Meelis Kull (Organiser) & Telmo De Menezes E Silva Filho (Organiser)
14 Sep 2020
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course