Invited Talk: AI in Engineering Design From Tools to Partners

Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University of Würzburg, Germany

November 2021 

Invited Talk: AI in Engineering Design From Tools to Partners

Computational Optimization and Innovation Laboratory, Michigan State University, USA

August 2021 

Keynote Talk: Data-driven AI in Engineering Design From Tools to Partners

IEEE CIS Summer School on Data-Driven Artificial/Computational Intelligence, UK

August 2021 

Keynote Talk: AI in Engineering Design From Tools to Partners

3rd International Conference on Industrial Artificial Intelligence

Shenyang, Liaoning, China

July 2020 

Keynote Talk: Cooperation – Experience – Creativity: Towards a new role of Optimization and AI in Engineering

IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence

Glasgow, UK

Invited Talk: Industrial Optimization and the Search for New Algorithms.

MALVIC: Machine Learning and Vision for Industrial Applications. Autumn School, NORCE Norwegian Research Center, Kristiansand, NO.

December 2020 

Invited Talk: Generating Innovations by Optimization and Learning.

Innovate your Space, Symposium organized by TU Delft, TNO and SRON.

November 2019 

Keynote Talk: Modular Approaches for Automatic Configuration and Learning.

20th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL), University of Manchester, UK.

Plenary talk: Towards Robustness to Different Types of Concept Drift in Data Stream Learning, IncrLearn Workshop on Incremental Classification and Clustering, Concept Drift, Novelty Detection in Big/Fast data Context, held in conjunction with 21th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2021)

Sept 2021 

Keynote: Prediction of Defect-Inducing Software Changes in Dynamic Environments, 24th Iberoamerican Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE 2021), Costa Rica

June 2021  

Invited Talk: Transfer Learning for Software Engineering

Federal University of Parana and Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Jan 2020  

Invited Talk: Cross-Project Learning in Online Just-In-Time Software Defect Prediction, University of Leicester, UK

Sept 2020  

Invited Talk: Data Stream Learning in Non-Stationary Environments

Online event via Even3, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Also streamed live at: https://youtu.be/SNcVX7yZdJI

Sept 2020  

Panelist in the Panel on How will machine learning change the way IT professionals work? 13th International Conference on the Quality of Information and  Communications Technology (QUATIC 2020), Online Conference due to covid-19

Sept 2020  

Keynote: The Whole is Better Than the Sum of the Parts – On The Value of Machine Learning Ensemble Methods, BEAR PGR Conference, Birmingham UK, Apr 2019. Invited Talk: Class Imbalance Evolution and Verification Latency in Just-in-Time, Software Defect Prediction, Oxford Brookes University UK

Dec 2018  

Invited Talk: A Novel Automated Approach for Software Effort Estimation Based on Data Augmentation, The 60th CREST Open Workshop – Those Were the DAASE, UK

Nov 2018  

Invited Webinar: A Novel Data Augmentation Technique for Regression Problems and Its Application to Software Effort Estimation, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Webinar

Invited lecturer at the Autumn School MALVIC: Machine Learning and Vision for Industrial Applications (MALVIC 2021), Kristiansand, Norway. Talk title: “Ensemble Approaches to Class Imbalance Learning”.

17-20 October 2021 

Invited keynote speaker at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2021), Melbourne, Australia. Talk title: “Ensemble Approaches to Class Imbalance Learning”.

2-4 July 2021 

Invited keynote speaker at 2021 the 4th International Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (BDAI 2021), Qingdao, China. Talk title: “Ensemble Approaches to Class Imbalance Learning”.

28 June – 1 July 2021 

Invited plenary speaker at the 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’2021), Krakow, Poland. Talk title: “When Everything Else Fails, Try Co-evolution”.

11-13 June 2021 

Invited keynote speaker at the third Chinese Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience (CCCN) Conference, Shenzhen, China. Talk title: “Forgotten Questions in Brain-inspired Computation”.

7-9 November 2020 

Invited keynote speaker at the 15th Chinese Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (ChineseCSCW 2020),

Shenzhen, China.

August 2021 

Keynote Talk: When Everything Else Fails, Try Co-Evolution

IEEE CIS Summer School on Data-Driven Artificial/Computational Intelligence, UK

6-9 December 2019 

Invited plenary speaker at the 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI2019),Xiamen, China.

2-5 December 2019 

Invited keynote speaker at the 32nd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2019), Adelaide, SA, Australia.

 10-13 June 2019 

Invited public lecture at the 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’2019) Wellington, New Zealand.

18 December 2018 

Invited keynote speaker at the 2018 Workshop on Internet-Plus Manufacturing and Services Operations Management (IMSOM 2018),

Shenyang, China.

6-7 December 2018 

Invited keynote speaker at the 9th International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (SoICT 2018), Da Nang City, Viet Nam

21-23 November 2018 

Invited keynote speaker at the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2018), Madrid, Spain.

2-4 November 2018 

Invited keynote speaker at the 13th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2018), Beijing, China.

June 30-July 6, 2018 

Invited plenary speaker at the 8th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST 2018),

Cordoba-Granada-Seville, Spain