Nello Cristianini (born 1968) is a Professor of

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in the Department of Computer Science at the

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Education

Cristianini holds a degree in physics from the University of Trieste, a Master in computational intelligence from the University of London and a PhD in 2000 under Colin Campbell from the University of Bristol, with a thesis titled ''Large margin strategies for machine learning''. Previously he has been an associate professor at the University of California, Davis, and held visiting positions at other universities.

Research

His research contributions encompass the fields of

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

and bioinformatics. Particularly, his work has focused on statistical analysis of learning algorithms, to its application to support vector machines,

kernel methods In machine learning, kernel machines are a class of algorithms for pattern analysis, whose best known member is the support-vector machine (SVM). The general task of pattern analysis is to find and study general types of relations (for example ...

and other algorithms. Cristianini is the co-author of two widely known books in machine learning, '' An Introduction to Support Vector Machines'' and '' Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis'' and a book in bioinformatics, "Introduction to Computational Genomics". Recent research has focused on the big-data analysis of newspapers content, the analysis of social media content, and the ethical implication of data-driven approaches to science and society. Previous research had focused on unified theoretical frameworks for statistical pattern analysis; machine learning and artificial intelligence; machine translation; bioinformatics. As a practitioner of data-driven AI and Machine Learning, Cristianini frequently gives public talks about the need for a deeper ethical understanding of the effects of modern data-science on society.

Awards and honours

Cristianini is a recipient of the

Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award was an award made by the Royal Society from 2000 to 2020. It was administered by the Royal Society and jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the UK Office of Science and Technology, to provide ...

and a current holder of a European Research Council Advanced Grant. In June 2014, Cristianini was included in a list of the "most influential scientists of the decade" compiled by Thomson Reuters (listing the top one per cent of scientists who are "the world’s leading scientific minds" and whose publications are among the most influential in their fields). In December 2016 he was included in the list of Top100 most influential researchers in Machine Learning by AMiner. In 2017, Cristianini was the keynote speaker at the Annual STOA Lecture at the European Parliament. From 2020 to 2024 he was a member of the International Advisory Board of STOA (Panel for the Future of Science and Technology of the European Parliament).

Books

*2000: ''An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Other Kernel-based Learning Methods'', Nello Cristianini and John Shawe-Taylor *2004: ''Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis'', Nello Cristianini and John Shawe-Taylor *2006: ''Intro Computational Genomics, Matthew William Hahn and Nello Cristianini *2014: ''The Last Summer: Story of Lucy Christalnigg and the End of a World, Nello Cristianini

References

External links

Support Vector Machines: Book and Resources

Bioinformatics Text Book

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140819085227/https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2014/august/thomson-reuters.html Five Bristol scientists named among "the world’s leading scientific minds", University of Bristol]
AMiner 2016 most influential scholars in Machine Learning STOA Lecture 2017
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cristianini, Nello 1968 births Living people Alumni of the University of London People from the Province of Gorizia Academics of the University of Bristol Alumni of the University of Bristol University of California, Davis faculty Italian computer scientists European Research Council grantees