Russ Greiner: Short Biography
After earning a PhD from
Stanford,
Russ Greiner worked in both academic and
industrial research before settling at the
University of Alberta, where he is
now a Professor in Computing Science and the founding Scientific Director of the
Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning
(now Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute),
which won the
ASTech Award
for "Outstanding Leadership in Technology"
in 2006.
He has been Program Chair for the
2004
"Int'l Conf. on Machine Learning",
Conference Chair for
2006
"Int'l Conf. on Machine Learning",
Editor-in-Chief for "Computational Intelligence",
and is serving on the
editorial boards of a number of other journals.
He was elected a
Fellow of
the AAAI
(Association for the Advancement of
Artificial Intelligence) in 2007,
and was awarded a
McCalla
Professorship in 2005-06 and a
Killam
Annual Professorship in 2007.
He has published
over 200 refereed papers
and patents,
most in the areas of machine learning and knowledge representation,
including 4 that have been awarded Best Paper prizes.
The main foci of his
current work
are
(1) bioinformatics and medical informatics;
(2) learning and using effective probabilistic models and
(3) formal foundations of learnability.
Longer bio (2007)
Webpage
1997:
2015:
R Greiner
Professor, Department of Computing Science
PI, Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning
University of Alberta Edmonton Canada T6G 2E8
Tel: (780) 492-4828 (admin) Fax: (780) 492-1071
rgreiner-@-ualberta-.-ca http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~rgreiner/