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Name Professor Nello Cristianini
Job title Research Fellow
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Department Department of Philosophy University of Bristol
Department of Engineering Mathematics University of Bristol
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Qualifications B.Sc.(Trieste), Ph.D.(Bristol)
Professional details
Membership of professional bodies Action Editor of Journal of Machine Learning Research
Associate Editor of Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Holder of Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award
Keywords pattern analysis
machine intelligence
computational genomics
bioinformatics
cognitive systems
media content analysis
ethical aspects of data analysis
web mining
Areas of expertise Theory and applications of Pattern Analysis algorithms. Applied to problems in Genomics, Web Analysis, Machine Intelligence.
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After spending many years developing tools for the automatic discovery of patterns in data, and for enabling computer systems to learn from experience, my group is now focused on pushing the envelope in two core directions: detection of patterns in genomic data; detection of patterns in media content, with implications for web-based intelligence.
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General description for media here:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/researchreview/2006/11573628817.html
Languages (other than English)
Italian spoken    written
Media experience I have been interviewed in TV and radio, in Italian and in English. Interviewed by print media. Many years experience as a reporter when student in Italy. Attended courses of media relations in UK and US. I enjoy it.