Christophe Giraud-Carrier

From DML

Christophe joined the Faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Brigham Young University in 2004. Prior to coming to BYU, he was Senior Manager at ELCA, a Swiss IT services company, where his responsibilities included the capitalization of Data Mining expertise, responses to tenders and the management of various projects for companies, local governments and NGOs. Prior to ELCA, Christophe was Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, where he founded and led the Machine Learning Research Group. Christophe received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Brigham Young University in 1991, 1993, and 1994, respectively.

Contents 1 Current Activities 2 Publications 3 Past Activities 4 Former PhD Students 5 Former MS Students

[edit] Current Activities

• Research: Data Mining, Meta-learning, Incremental learning, Evolutionary Computing
• Teaching: Introduction to Data Mining (CS 476), Data Structures and Algorithm (CS 235), Advanced Topics in Data Mining (CS 676), Book of Mormon Part 2 (RELA 122)
• Citizenship: ICTAI, ADMA, IJDATS, FHT, IASTED ASC/ISC/AIA

[edit] Publications

• Click here for a list of my Publications.

[edit] Past Activities

• Projects:
  • METAL: A Meta-Learning Assistant for Providing User Support in Machine Learning and Data Mining. ESPRIT Framework IV - LTR Reactive (Nr. 26.357), 1998-2001 (6 partners).
  • Higher-Order Inductive Declarative Programming. EPSRC Grant GR/L21884, 1996-1999. With J.W. Lloyd.
  • Case Base Maintenance Through Induction. BT Labs, 1999-2000.
  • Proactive Selling with Machine Learning. Short-Term Research Fellowship, BT Labs, 1996.
  • Design and Implementation of Two Profiles in Engineering Technology and Industrial Informatics at Three Polish Universities. Structural Joint European Project Grant S_JEP-11137-96, Tempus Phare, 1996-1999. With A. Chalmers.
• Workshops:
  • Giraud-Carrier, C. and Vilalta, R. (2007). IJCNN Workshop on Meta-learning, Orlando, Florida, USA.
  • Giraud-Carrier C., Vilalta, R. and Brazdil, P. (2005). ICML Workshop on Meta-learning , Bonn, Germany.
  • Giraud-Carrier, C., Lavrac, N. and Moyle, S. (2001). ECML/PKDD Workshop on Integrating Aspects of Data Mining, Decision Support and Meta-Learning, Freiburg, Germany.
  • Keller, J. and Giraud-Carrier, C. (2000). ECML-2000 Workshop on Meta-Learning: Building Automatic Advice Strategies for Model Selection and Method Combination, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Giraud-Carrier, C. and Pfahringer, B. (1999). ICML Workshop on Recent Advances in Meta-Learning and Future Work . J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • Giraud-Carrier, C. and Hilario, M. (1998). ECML Workshop on Upgrading Learning to the Meta-Level: Model Selection and Data Transformation, Chemnitz, Germany.

[edit] Former PhD Students

• Dr. Torbjorn Dahl, Senior Lecturer, University of Wales, Newport, UK
• Dr. Rafal Bogacz, Lecturer, University of Bristol, UK
• Dr. Rene MacKinney-Romero, Faculty Member, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
• Dr. Claire Thie (nee Kennedy), Capability Team Leader, QinetiQ PLC, UK

[edit] Former MS Students

• Brian Hawkins, Lingotek, USA
• Matthew Smith, PhD Student, Brigham Young University, USA
• Burdette Pixton, RemedyMD, USA
• Brent Wenerstrom, PhD Student, University of Louisville, USA
• Kristine Daniels, Full-time Mom
• Simon Rawles, PhD Student, University of Bristol, UK
• Bjorn Gustafson
• Peter Swann, Rolls Royce, UK
• Rachel Harris, PhD, Research Fellow, University of Strathclyde, UK
• Xavier Bouchoux
• Kristjian Krc
• Olivier Torreilles
• Simon Butterworth
• Mark Hansen
• David O'Flanagan
• David Lock
• Adrian Atley