Peter Tino - Reader in Complex and Adaptive Systems

Office:
The University of Birmingham
School of Computer Science
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

+44 121 414 8558
P.Tino@cs.bham.ac.uk
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pxt/



RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• 2003 until present: The University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science, Birmingham, UK
  Reader in Complex and Adaptive Systems (Senior lecturer Oct 2006-Sept 2011, Lecturer Jan 2003-Sept 2006)
  Teaching Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Imaging and Visualisation Systems, Intelligent Data Analysis
• 2008: City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
  UK-Hong Kong Fellowship for Excellence, worked with Prof. H. Yan
  Analysis of cDNA microarray data, promoter recognition.
• 2000-2003: Aston University, Neural Computing Research Group, Birmingham, UK
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, working with Prof. I. Nabney
  Classification across multiple targets, bioinformatics
• 1997-2000: Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, worked with Dr. G. Dorffner
  Multifractal analysis of recurrent neural networks, modeling and analysis of financial data
• 1994-1995: NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ, USA
  Fulbright Fellow, worked with Prof. C.L.Giles
  Recurrent neural networks, grammar inference, dynamical systems
• 1992-2000: Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
  Teaching and research in neural networks and dynamical systems
• 1989-1991: Institute of Control Theory and Robotics, Slovak Academy of Sciences
  Study stay: Theory of fuzzy sets, belief functions, statistical inference.


EDUCATION
• 1997: Ph.D.
  Institute of Control Theory and Robotics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
  Learning Temporally Dependent Associative Mappings with Recurrent Neural Networks
  advisor: Dr. Jozef Sajda
• 1988: M.Sc.
  Dept. of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
  Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
  Modeling of surfaces in 3-D
  advisor: Dr. Valent Zatko, Comenius University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Slovakia


HONORS AND AWARDS
• 2011: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding 2009 Paper Award (IEEE Computational Intelligence Society)
  H. Chen, P. Tino, X. Yao: Probabilistic Classification Vector Machines. 2009
• 2010: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding 2008 Paper Award (IEEE Computational Intelligence Society)
  S.Y. Chong, P. Tino, X. Yao: Measuring Generalization Performance in Co-evolutionary Learning. 2008
• 2008: UK-Hong Kong Fellowship for Excellence
  DfES, worked at City University of Hong Kong.
• 2002: Best conference paper award at ICANN 2002
  P. Tino, B. Hammer: Architectural Bias in Recurrent Neural Networks - Fractal Analysis.
• 1998: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding 1996 Paper Award
  T. Lin, B.G. Horne, P. Tino, C.L. Giles: Learning long-term dependencies with NARX recurrent neural networks. 1996
• 1994: Fulbright fellowship
  Fulbright Commission, worked at NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ, USA
• 1988: Graduation with Distinction
  Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia


RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Statistical Pattern Recognition,
• Natural Computation
• Computational Models of Dynamical Systems, Evolution of Complexity in Self-Organizing Systems
• Fractal and Multifractal Analysis
• Knowledge Representation in Connectionist Connectionist Models, Integration of Symbolic and Connectionist Paradigms, Hybrid Systems


PUBLICATIONS


EDITORIAL BOARD
• 2011 - : Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)
• 2007 - : Pattern Analysis and Applications (Springer)
• 2007 - : Neural Processing Letters (Springer)
• 2007 - 2011: The Open Artificial Intelligence Journal (Bentham)
• 2007 - 2012: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Hindawi)


• 2008: International Journal of Neural Systems (IJNS) (World Scientific) - guest editor for special issue on IDEAL 2007.
• 2009: Journal of Algorithms in Cognition, Informatics and Logic (Elsevier) - editorial board member for special issue on "Perspectives and Challenges for Recurrent Neural Networks". 2009.
• 2013: Neurocomputing (Elsevier) - guest editor for special issue on ESANN 2012.


JOURNAL REFEREEING
• Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bioinformatics
• BMC Bioinformatics
• Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
• Connection Science
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Decision Support Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics B
• IEEE Signal Processing Letters
• International Journal of Forecasting
• International Journal of Computers, Systems and Signals
• Journal of Intelligent Systems
• Journal of Machine Learning Reserach
• Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms
• Machine Learning
• Network: Computation in Neural Systems
• Neural Computation
• Neurocomputing
• Neural Networks
• Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
• Physics Letters A
• Quantitative Finance


PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
• 17th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2013). Kitakyushu, Japan
• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2013). Amsterdam, Netherlands
• IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM-2013) (AIA 2013). Singapore
• Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2013). Innsbruck, Austria
• 13th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2012). Natal, Brazil
  - programme committee co-chair
• 16th International Conference on Knowledge Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, (KES 2012). San Sebastain, Spain
• 3rd International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2012). Shenzhen, China
• 19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2012). Doha, Qatar
• Third International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP 2012). Dalian, China
• Fifth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2012). Nanjing, China
• International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA 2012). Paris, France
• 20th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN 2012). Bruges, Belgium
• 21st International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2011). Espoo, Finland
  - area programme committee chair
• 19th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN 2011). Bruges, Belgium
• 2nd International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI'2011). Chongqing, China
• 8th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2011). Guilin, China
• Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2011). Innsbruck, Austria
• Intelligent Systems and Control (ISC 2011). Cambridge, UK
• 15th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2011). Kaiserslautern, Germany
• IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS2011). Paris, France
• 11th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'10). Paisley, UK
  - programme committee co-chair
• Computational Intelligence (CI 2010). Maui, Hawaii, USA
• International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC 2010). Valencia, Spain
• 14th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2010). Cardiff, Wales, UK
• International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICS ’2010). Beijing, China
• 18th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN 2010). Bruges, Belgium
• 24th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS 2010). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2010). Innsbruck, Austria
• 12th IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISC 2009). Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
• International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC 2009). Madeira, Portugal
• 23rd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS 2009). Madrid, Spain
• 17th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN 2009). Bruges, Belgium
• 10th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'09). Burgos, Spain
• Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2009). Innsbruck, Austria
• Computational Intelligence (CI 2009). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
• The 5th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2008). Beijing, China.
• 9th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'08). Daejeon, Korea
• 11th IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISC 2008). Orlando, Florida, USA
• 16th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN 2008). Bruges, Belgium
• 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Economics & Finance (CIEF'08). Taoyuan, Taiwan
• Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2008). Innsbruck, Austria
• 8th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'07). Birmingham, UK
  - technical programme committee chair
• The Twenty-Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'07). Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Computational Intelligence (CI 2007). Banff, Alberta, Canada
• 6th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Economics & Finance (CIEF'07). Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
• The 3rd International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'07). Haikou, Hainan, China
• International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISC 2007). Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
• 11th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2007) - Special session on "Pattern Recognition in Graphical Domains" . Vietri sul Mare, Italy
• The 4th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2007). Nanjing, China.
• International Workshop on Advances in Pattern Recognition. (IWAPR 2007). Plymouth, UK
• 7th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'06). Burgos, Spain
• The 2nd International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'06). Xi'an, China
• The 9th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN IX). Reykjavik, Island
• International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISC 2006). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
• Computational Intelligence (CI 2006). San Francisco, USA
• The 3rd International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2006). Chengdu, China.
• 6th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'05). Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• 2005 International Conference on Natural Computation . Changsha, China
• Computational Intelligence (CI 2005). Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (AKRR'05) . Espoo, Finland
• Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2005). Innsbruck, Austria
• International Postgraduate Conference on Pattern Analysis for Applications in Physical and Life Sciences (2005). Bath, UK
• The Twenty-First International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2004). Banff, Canada
• Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2004). Innsbruck, Austria
• Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'04). Exeter, UK
• The 8th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VIII). Birmingham, UK
• International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr2003). Hong Kong


I LOVE ART
• 1991-1993,1996-1998: history of painting
• 1987-1988: harmony and composition
• actively playing classical guitar
• playing in a band


REFERENCES
Prof. C. Lee Giles
School of Information Sciences and Technology
The Pennsylvania State University
001 Thomas Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
giles@ist.psu.edu


Prof. Gerhard Widmer
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Schottengasse 3
A-1010 Vienna, Austria
gerhard@ai.univie.ac.at


Dr. Janet Wiles
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
The Univerisity of Queensland
GP-South (bldg 78), Staff House Road
Queensland 4072, Australia
j.wiles@itee.uq.edu.au