Peter Flach

Biography

Peter Flach has been Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bristol since 2003. An internationally leading researcher in the areas of mining highly structured data and the evaluation and improvement of machine learning models using ROC analysis, he has also published on the logic and philosophy of machine learning, and on the combination of logic and probability. He is author of Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (John Wiley, 1994) and Machine Learning: the Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Research Interest

Data-intensive computing and analytics; Mining complex and highly structured data; Evaluation, calibration and reuse of machine learning models; Feature construction and subgroup discovery in data streams; Intelligent reasoning, artificial intelligence.