Randomization-Based Deep and Shallow Neural Networks Distinguished Lecturers Program (DLP) Speaker: DLP 19-15 P. N. Suganthan Date: January 27, 2020 Location: Maribor, Slovenia Chapter: IEEE Slovenia Section (Ales Zamuda) Title of Talks: Randomization-Based Deep and Shallow Neural Networks Status: Scheduled This event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/186758829390381/ Register at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/217866   ABSTRACT (DLP TALK) This talk will first introduce the main randomization-based feedforward neural networks with closed-form solutions. The popular instantiation of the feedforward type called random vector functional link neural network (RVFL) originated in early 1990s. RVFL variants will be empirically evaluated. Subsequently, deep versions of RVFL will be presented as a single and ensemble classifiers. The talk will also present extensive benchmarking studies using classification and forecasting datasets. If time permits, oblique random forest and kernel ridge regression will also be briefly discussed. Acknowledgement: Sponsored by the Computational Intelligence Society under its Distinguished Lecturer Program. Prof. Suganthan is a CIS Distinguished Lecturer.   About DLP (Distinguished Lecturers Programs): The IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) aims at serving the Computational Intelligence community by providing stimulating lectures given by distinguished IEEE CIS professionals and scholars. It also aims at helping young researchers (masters and doctoral students) providing suggestions/guidance on their research problems as well as promoting computational intelligence tools and techniques among undergraduate students to make them interested in CIS fields of interest. Distinguished Lecturers present novel basic and/or applied research results in their CIS sub-field. 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About IEEE Slovenia CIS Chapter: The mission of IEEE Slovenia CIS chapter (Geo-code CH08873) is advancing nature-inspired computational paradigms in science and engineering to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. More information about IEEE Slovenia CIS Chapter at the website: https://r8.ieee.org/slovenia-cis/. Date and Time Date: 27 Jan 2020 Time: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM All times are CET Add Event to Calendar Outlook (vCal) iCal Google Calendar Location Koroška cesta 46 Maribor, Slovenia Slovenia 2000 Building: G2 Room Number: G2-P01 Contact Email event contact: ales.zamuda@um.si IEEE Slovenia CIS Chair: asst. prof. dr. Aleš Zamuda Invitation on behalf of cosponsor: prof. dr. Aleš Holobar, Head of Institute of Computer Science, UM FERI Co-sponsored by Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Slovenia Registration Starts 20 January 2020 06:00 PM Ends 27 January 2020 03:00 PM All times are CET No Admission Charge Speakers Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan of Nanyang Technological University Topic: Randomization-Based Deep and Shallow Neural Networks DLP TALK ABSTRACT: This talk will first introduce the main randomization-based feedforward neural networks with closed-form solutions. The popular instantiation of the feedforward type called random vector functional link neural network (RVFL) originated in early 1990s. RVFL variants will be empirically evaluated. Subsequently, deep versions of RVFL will be presented as a single and ensemble classifiers. The talk will also present extensive benchmarking studies using classification and forecasting datasets. If time permits, oblique random forest and kernel ridge regression will also be briefly discussed. Related events: 2020-01-24 Prof. Suganthan will give a talk at IEEE Croatia Section (see invitation newsitem). 2020-01-27 Prof. Suganthan will receive a honorary PhD degree from University of Maribor. Speaker's Biography: Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan received the B.A. degree, Postgraduate Certificate and M.A. degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK in 1990, 1992 and 1994, respectively. After completing his PhD research in 1995, he served as a pre-doctoral Research Assistant in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney in 1995–96 and a lecturer in the Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland in 1996–99. He moved to NTU in 1999. He was an Editorial Board Member of the Evolutionary Computation Journal, MIT Press (2013 – 2018) and an associate editor of the IEEE Trans on Cybernetics (2012 – 2018). He is an associate editor of Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier, 2018 -), Neurocomputing (Elsevier, 2018 -), IEEE Trans on Evolutionary Computation (2005 -), Information Sciences (Elsevier, 2009 -), Pattern Recognition (Elsevier, 2001 -) and Int. J. of Swarm Intelligence Research (2009 -) Journals. He is a founding co-editor-in-chief of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (2010 -), an SCI Indexed Elsevier Journal. His co-authored SaDE paper (published in April 2009) won the “IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computation outstanding paper award” in 2012. His former PhD student, Dr Jane Jing Liang, won the IEEE CIS Outstanding PhD dissertation award, in 2014. IEEE CIS Singapore Chapter won the best chapter award in Singapore in 2014 for its achievements in 2013 under his leadership. His research interests include swarm and evolutionary algorithms, pattern recognition, forecasting, randomized neural networks, deep learning and applications of swarm, evolutionary & machine learning algorithms. His publications have been well cited (Google Scholar Citations: ~34k). His SCI indexed publications attracted over 1000 SCI citations in a calendar year since 2013. He was selected as one of the highly cited researchers by Thomson Reuters every year from 2015 to 2018 in computer science. He served as the General Chair of the IEEE SSCI 2013. He is an IEEE CIS distinguished lecturer (DLP) in 2018-2020. He has been a member of the IEEE (S’91, M’92, SM’00, Fellow’15) since 1991 and an elected AdCom member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) in 2014 – 2016. Speaker's Email: epnsugan@ntu.edu.sg. Speaker's Address: S2-B2a-21, EEE, NTU, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 639798. Slides from the lecture are available at: Randomized Deep-Shallow-ANN Photos: https://www.facebook.com/IEEESloveniaCIS/photos/ Video filming of the lecture: https://www.facebook.com/events/186758829390381/permalink/198935101506087/