Improving Classifier Generalization

Dr Sevakula Rahul Kumar has over 10 years of research experience in machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL). He received his Bachelor’s degree from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal, India in 2009 and later his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India in 2017. He is currently a Sr. Research Scientist at Whoop, and his research interests lie at the intersection of ML, physiological signals, cardiovascular health monitoring (medicine) and wearables. Prior to joining Whoop, he was an Instructor (junior research faculty) at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA, and a Data Scientist at IBM India. He has filed multiple patent disclosures and has published over 45 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is also a reviewer for several journals of national and international repute. Dr. Nishchal K. Verma is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India.  Dr. Verma's research interest falls in Artificial Intelligence (AI) related theories and its practical applications to inter-disciplinary domains like machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, prognosis and health management, bioinformatics, cyber-physical systems, complex and highly non-linear systems modeling, clustering, and classifications, etc. He has published more than 250 research papers in peer-reviewed reputed conferences and journals along with 4 books (edited/ co-authored) in the field of AI. He has 20+ years of experience in the field of AI. He is currently serving as Associate Editor/ Editorial Board Member of various reputed journals and conferences. He has also developed several AI-related key technologies for The BOEING Company, USA.

• Introduction to classification algorithms.- Methods to improve generalization performance.- MVPC – a classifier with very low VC dimension.- Framework for reliable fault detection with sensor data.- Membership functions for Fuzzy Support Vector Machine in noisy environment.- Stacked Denoising Sparse Autoencoder based Fuzzy rule classifiers.- Epilogue.