Title

Organizer(s)

1

Interactive Machine Learning: From Classifiers to Robotics

Brad Hayes (Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology), Ece Kamar (Microsoft 
Research), & Matt Taylor (Washington 
State University)

2

Physics of the mind

Leonid I. Perlovsky (Northeastern Univ.)

3

Brain-Inspired Turing Machine Logic in Neural Networks for 
Vision, Speech, and Natural Languages

Juyang Weng (Michigan State Univ.)

4

Information theoretic learning in pattern classification 
[See full info]

 Bao-Gang (B.-G.) Hu (Chinese Academy 
of Sciences)

5

Change and Anomaly Detection in Data Streams 
[See full info]

 Giacomo Boracchi (Politecnico de Milano)

6

Deep Learning Using Multi-Layer Perceptron and 
Improving its Performance

B.Chandra (Sprinklr)

7

Topological and graph based Clustering: recent 
algorithmic advances

Nistor Grozavu (Univ. Paris 13), 
Rushed Kanawati (Univ. Paris 13)

8

Advanced Methodologies for Predictive Learning

Vladimir Cherkassky (Univ. of Minnesota)

9

Deep Learning for EEG Signal Processing and Health 
Informatics 

Francesco Carlo Morabito (Mediterranean 
University of Reggio Calabria)

10

Deep Learning for Face Recognition

Richa Singh and Mayank Vatsa (IIIT-Delhi)

11

Graphical Probabilistic Modeling and Machine Learning for 
Multimedia Content Analysis

Xiao-Ping (Steven) Zhang (Ryerson University),
Zhu Liu (AT&T Labs - Research)

12

Monte Carlo Tree Search and other Simulation 
Optimization Methods

Michael C. Fu, (Univ. of Maryland)

13

Data insights from machine learning with applications to 
biomedical data 

Paulo Lisboa (Liverpool John Moores Univ.)

14

Time-Evolving Data Streams Learning and Short-Term 
Urban Traffic Flow Forecasting

Francesco Masulli (Univ. di Genoa)

15

Deep multiview representation learning: methods and 
applications

Raman Arora and
Kevin Duh (Johns Hopkins University)

16

Advanced Neural Network Applications for Smart Grid 
Operations

G. Kumar Venayagamoorthy (Clemson Univ.)

17

From Complex Systems Theory to Systems Neuroscience

Péter Érdi (Kalamazoo College)

18

Event-Related Potentials: Cognition in Brain-Computer 
Interfaces

João Luís Garcia Rosa (Universidade de 
São Paulo)

19

Towards the Ultimate Brain Computer – Hardware 
Designs of Artificial & Spiking Neural Networks [See full info]

Jae-sun Seo (Arizona State Univ.),
Bipin Rajendran (New Jersey Institute of 
Technology)

20

Cutting heuristics in Computational Intelligence with 
Visual Data Mining 

Boris Kovalerchuk (Centreal Washington 
Univ.)