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Upcoming Events

CALL FOR PAPERS: We are organizing the Special Session on "Shallow and Deep models for transfer learning and domain adaptation" at ESANN 2018, Bruges. Interested prospective authors are invited to submit their contributions before 20 November 2017.

You can find me this November at "The 29th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence" , BNAIC 2017, Groningen, The Netherlands. Presenting "Regularized Semi-Paired Kernel CCA for Domain Adaptation".

* I am awarded the FWO (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)

I had spent the last couple of months of 2016, at Cognitive Systems lab, Computer Department of beautiful Tuebingen.

* I was awarded a FWO long-stay travel grant, Oct-Dec 2016.

* I was awarded the "Recruitment of Excellent Junior Researcher" award

2017-2018, from the Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen, Germany.

I presented my work on "Scalable Hybrid Deep Neural Kernel Networks," in European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN) 2017, The Special Session: Deep and Kernel Methods , 26th - 28th April.2017, in beautiful Bruges, Belgium. [P1, P2]

Presented the "Scalable Semi-Supervised Kernel Spectral Learning using Random Fourier Features," in IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) Conference 2016, 6th-9th December, Athens, Greece. [Pic]

Presented the “Incremental multi-class semisupervised clustering regularized by Kalman filtering,” work in 28th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2016) November 10-11, 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [PDF]

Invited Talk "Incorporation of prior knowledge into Kernel based models", Jun.2016, Institute of Control and Complex Systems (AKS), Duisburg.

* I was awarded a 2015-2016 Postdoctoral Mandates PDM Fellowship (special research fund) from KU Leuven, Belgium.

Presented "Hierarchical semi-supervised clustering using KSC based method", at IJCNN 2015 in Ireland. [Pic]

* It was a successful wrap to my PhD years at KU Leuven, marked on Thursday 2nd.July.2015. Sincere thanks to all the dear guests

and good friends who honored me with their kind presence. [Pic1][Pic2]

Presented "Online semi-supervised clustering regularized by Kalman filtering", at "34th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control", 24th to 26th March.2015, Center Parcs De Vossemeren, Lommel, Belgium.

* We organized the workshop on Data-driven Modeling Methods and Applications (BIL 2014, at KU Leuven) with Dr. Xiaolin Huang.

Presented "Large scale semi-supervised learning using KSC based model", IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI/IJCNN), Beijing, China, Jul. 2014. [Pic]

* I was awarded a travel grant as a visiting PhD scholar at the Automation Department of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, June.2014.

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I attended the 7th edition of the Brussels ELEC Spring Doctoral School on Identification of (Non)-Linear Dynamic Systems at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, May.2014.

* I was selected among the top nominees for the Best Presentation Award at 33rd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Netherlands,

March.2014.