Modeling Interactions in Temporal Multiplex Networks

Zoran Obradovic, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Data Analytics
Data Analytics and Biomedical Informatics Center,
Computer and Information Sciences Department,
Statistics Department
Temple University

Abstract:

This presentation will discuss our machine learning approaches for identifying, categorizing, and forecasting events of interest from limited data and imprecise labels. This is accomplished by integrating structured and unstructured multimodal information and jointly modeling multiple types of interactions within temporal multilayer networks.
Our findings indicate that a learning framework integrating information from various sources with differing quality and resolution can significantly enhance informed decision-making.

Biography:

Zoran Obradovic is a Distinguished Professor and a Center director at Temple University, an Academician at the Academia Europaea (the Academy of Europe), and a Foreign Academician at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He mentored about 60 postdoctoral fellows and Ph.D. students, many of whom have independent research careers at academic institutions (e.g., Northeastern Univ., Ohio State Univ.) and industrial research labs (e.g., Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Hitachi Big Data, IBM T.J.Watson, Microsoft, Yahoo Labs, Uber, Verizon Big Data, Spotify). Zoran is the editor-in-chief of the Big Data journal and a steering committee member for the SIAM Data Mining conference. He is also an editorial board member of 13 journals and has served as general chair, program chair, or track chair for 11 international conferences. His research interests include data science and complex networks in decision support systems, addressing challenges in big, heterogeneous, spatial, and temporal data analytics, motivated by applications in healthcare management, power systems, earth sciences, and social sciences. His studies were funded by AFRL, DARPA, DOE, NIH, NSF, ONR, PA Department of Health, US Army ERDC, US Army Research Labs, and industry. He has published 490 articles and has been cited more than 37,000 times (H-index 70). For details, see http://www.dabi.temple.edu/zoran-obradovic