Adrian Silvescu

Research Scientist
Data Mining and Research, Yahoo! Inc. Yahoo!

Ph.D., Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University.
Advisor: Vasant Honavar
WWW: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~silvescu
e-mail: silvescu@cs.iastate.edu

Past Affiliations:

• Artificial Intelligence Research Lab
• Department of Computer Science
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Center for Intelligent Learning and Discovery
• Iowa State University

• Ph.D. 2008, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
• M.S. 1997, Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
• B.S. 1996, Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.

• Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • Feature Invention, Automatic Ontology Elicitation (a.k.a. Ontology Learning)
  • Probabilistic Graphical Models
  • Regularization Methods
  • Kernel and Spectral Methods
  • Relational Learning
  • Scalable and Distributed Learning Techniques
• Bioinformatics
• Information Extraction and Retrieval, Natural Language Processing and Web Mining
• Artificial Intelligence