Funded by the EPSRC-DST Indo-UK Initiative in Applied Mathematics

Conformal Prediction for Reliable Machine Learning

Hyatt Hyderabad Gachibowli, 15th - 17th December 2015

Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Hyderabad, 18th December 2015

15th December 2015 Morning 10.00 - 10.10 Welcome Address Vineeth Balasubramanian, Vladimir Vovk
10.10 - 11.10 Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory (Slides) Saketha Nath, IIT-Bombay
11.10 - 11.30 Tea/Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.30 Introduction to Conformal Prediction (Slides) Vineeth Balasubramanian, IIT-Hyd
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
Afternoon 14.00 - 15.00 Probabilistic Prediction in Machine Learning: Applications to Speech Processing Sri Rama Murty, IIT-Hyd
15.00 - 16.00 Venn and Venn-Abers predictors (Slides) Vladimir Vovk, RHUL
16.00 - 16.30 Tea/Coffee Break
16.30 - 18.00 Hands-on with Conformal Prediction: Coding session Vineeth Balasubramanian, IIT-Hyd
16th December 2015 Morning 09.30 - 10.30 Non-Parametric Inference (NPI) (Slides) Frank Coolen, Durham Univ
10.30-11.00 NPI and Conformal Prediction (Slides) Vladimir Vovk, RHUL
11.00 - 11.30 Tea/Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.00 Anomaly Detection of Ship Trajectories (Slides) James Smith, RHUL
12.00 - 12.40 Unsupervised conformal prediction and its applications (Slides) Ilia Nouretdinov, RHUL
12.40 - 14.00 Lunch
Afternoon 14.00 - 15.00 Unsupervised Learning of Hierarchical Structures in Data using Co-occurrence Analysis (Slides) Shailesh Kumar, Google, Hyd
15.00 - 15.50 Spectral Techniques for Topology Aware 3D Shape Analysis Avinash Sharma, IIIT-Hyderabad
15.50 - 16.10 PREFER: Exploring Preference RElations as FEedback in Recommender Systems (Slides) Maunendra Desarkar, IIT-Hyd
16.10 - 17.30 Tea/Coffee Break and Student Poster Session
18.00 - 20.30 Workshop Dinner
17th December 2015 Morning 9.30 - 10.30 Applications of conformal prediction in network traffic and indoor localisation (Slides) Zhiyuan Luo, RHUL
10.30 - 11.00 Misleading Metrics: On Evaluating Machine Learning for Malware (Slides) Roberto Jordaney, RHUL
11.00 - 11.20 Tea/Coffee Break
11.20 - 11.50 Conformal Clustering and its Application to Botnet Traffic (Slides) Giovanni Cherubin, RHUL
11.50 - 12.40 Conformal Prediction in Recommmender systems Vineet Nair, Univ of Hyd
12.40 - 14.00 Lunch
Afternoon 14.00 - 15.00 Conformal Prediction in Drug Discovery Lars Carlsson and Claus Bendtsen, Astrazeneca
15.00 - 15.30 Spotlight Presentations by Indian Industry Personnel Novartis, Honeywell, Infosys, Deloitte, Oracle, TCS
15.30 - 16.00 Tea/Coffee Break and Photo Session
16.00 - 17.00 Review of Industry Collaborations of Conformal Prediction Alexander Gammerman, RHUL
17.00 - 18.00 Panel Discussion on Industry Applications
18th December 2015 Morning 09.30 - 10.00 IITH Welcome Address Dr. Uday Desai, Director, IITH
10.00 - 11.00 Learning Labels on Graphs (Slides) Chiranjib Bhattacharya, IISc
11.00 - 11.30 Tea/Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.30 Sequential Crowdsourced Labeling (Slides) Vikas Raykar, IBM Research
12.30 - 12.50 Open Problems/Emerging Directions in Conformal Prediction Research (Slides) Vladimir Vovk, RHUL
12.50 - 13.00 Closing Remarks Vineeth Balasubramanian, IIT-Hyd
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch