Saaid Baraty
I am a PhD candidate at
Department of Computer Science of
University of Massachusetts at Boston .
My subfield is
Data Mining and I a member of
Data Mining group .
My advisor is
Professor Dan Simovici .
Topics in Data Mining and Machine Learning that I am interested in are:
- Bayesian Belief Networks.
- Entropy Functions and Partitions.
- Density Based Approaches in Cluster Analysis.
- Instance-Based Learning (Distance-weighted Regression
and Radial Basis Functions methods).
Educations:
- 2004-present:Working on PhD in Computer Science at UMB
- 2001-2003:MS in Computer Science from UMB
- 1993-1998:BS in Computer Science from East Gilan Azad Univ. (Iran)
Scholarships:
- GAANN doctoral fellowships for 2005-2006
- GAANN doctoral fellowships for 2006-2007
- GAANN doctoral fellowships for 2007-2008
- GAANN doctoral fellowships for 2008-2009
Contact Information:
sbaraty "at" cs.umb.edu
Tel: +1 617 287 6445
Resume/CV (docx)
Direct Contact:
Room 90
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts at Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125-3393
USA
Publications:
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Structure Inference of Bayesian Networks from Data: A New Approach Based on
Generalized Conditional Entropy, Proceedings of ECG 2008, pp. 337-342,
Sophia Antipolis, France.
( PDF file)
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Edge Evaluation in Bayesian Network Structures, Proceedings of the
8th Australian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2009), Australian
Computer Society and ACM, pp. 193-201.
( PDF file)
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Large Data Sets, Conditional Entropy and the Cooper-Herskovits Bayesian Score,
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Florida Artificial Intelligence
Research Society Conference, May 19-21, 2010, Daytona Beach, Florida. AAAI Press 2010.
( PDF file)
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The Impact of Triangular Inequality Violations on Medoid-Based Clustering, Proceedings
of ISMIS 2011, Warsaw, Poland, June 2011, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence,
LNAI 6804, pp. 280--2898.
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Evaluating Bayesian Networks by Sampling with Simplified Assumptions, To be published in
the Proceedings of ECG 2012, January 2012, Bordeaux, France
( PDF file)
Teachings: