Academic

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in the Data Mining Lab at Brigham Young University, to cover living expenses and tuition.

The following are research issues of interest to the Data Mining Lab:

• Mining structure-rich data, i.e., applications where trees, graphs and otherstructures are prevalent (e.g., bioinformatics, genealogy)
• Meta-learning for model selection and combination
• Dataset/application characterization, in particular landmarking
• Learning algorithm characterization
• Incremental learning, i.e., adapting to new data without retraining

Christophe Giraud-Carrier
Brigham Young University
Department of Computer Science
cgc@cs.byu.edu

Note that applicants must be prepared to abide by BYU's Honor Code (see http://campuslife.byu.edu/HONORCODE/honor_code.htm for details).