Welcome to Machine and Statistical Learning @ Purdue

Purdue University has a wide range of research and educational activities in machine and statistical learning. Interested faculty and students are affiliated with the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Statistics, and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Current research includes contributions to the fields of computational statistics, data visualization, information retrieval, learning in privacy and security, text analysis, relational learning, and network traffic analysis.

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Picture of Sergey Kirshner Professor Sergey Kirshner joined the faculty of the Department of Statistics in the fall of 2008. His research spans many areas of machine learning including techniques for analysis and modeling of high-dimensional temporal data, graphical models, and Bayesian approaches.
Picture of S.V.N. Vishwanathan Professor S.V.N. Vishwanathan joined the faculty of the Department of Statistics and the Department of Computer Science in the fall of 2008. His research interests include Computational Methods for Statistical Inference, Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Massive Data.
Picture of Luo Si Professor Luo Si, assistant professor in Statistics (courtesy) and assistant professor of Computer Science, was granted the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award by the National Science Foundation. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career development activities of teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization. Si received the award for a proposal titled "An Integrated and Utility-Centric Framework for Federated Text Search" which will research ways to search the web more efficiently. More...
Picture of Jennifer Neville Professor Jennifer Neville was declared an AI leader of the future in IEEE Intelligent Systems May/June 2008 issue. She is one of ten researchers highlighted in the IEEE 2008 AI's 10 to Watch list. More...
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