Ata Kaban – research group

Current PhD students

• Heyam Al-Baity (split-site)
• Momodou Sanyang

Previous PhDs & postdocs

• Dr. Jo Bootkrajang (2013) - Classification in the presence of label noise.
• Dr. Bob Durrant, (2013) - Learning in high dimensions with projected linear discriminants. New homepage.
• Dr Sakinah Ali Pitchay (2013) - Advances in single-frame image recovery.
• Dr. Richard Downing, (2008) - Artificial evolution with binary decision diagrams: A study in evolvability in neutral spaces.
• Dr. Xin (Cindy) Wang, (2007) - Observation saliency estimation using latent variable models in the context of data clustering.
• Dr. Jianyong Sun, research fellow (2005-2008).

Projects

Paul & Yuanbi Ramsay research award, School of CS (12K)

A random matrix theory approach to gene regulatory network inference; 1^st Feb 2013 – 31 May 2013.

Research fellow: Bob Durrant

Paul & Yuanbi Ramsay research award, School of CS (8K)

Relating learning and measure concentration on topological group structures, 15 July 2010 – 14 July 2011.

Research Associate: Bob Durrant

(PI) MRC Discipline Hopping Award G0701858 (ID no. 85545) (GBP 99,349)
Generative-discriminative hybrids for disease prediction and cell communication modeling, 15 August 2008 - 14 August 2009.
Institute of Biomedical Research, main collaborator: Dr Francesco Falciani.

(Co-i) PPARC (PP/C503138/1), GBP 152,210.
Designer algorithms for astronomical data mining, 9 May 2005- 8 May 2008.

Pi: Prof Trevor Ponman (School of Physics & Astronomy)

Research Fellow: Dr Jianyong Sun.

Welcome Trust VIP award (Project 10835), joint with Dr Peter Tino, (11K)

Machine learning for cancer research, January-July 2005.

Paul & Yuanbi Ramsay research award, School of CS (7K)
Factorisation techniques for the exploratory analysis of galaxy spectra, June-August 2004.
Research Associate: Markus Harva
Collaboration with Drs Louisa Nolan & Somak Raychaudhury (School of Physics & Astronomy)

Undergrad & Masters project topics