Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bernd Karl Joachims

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-2 und Äquivalente
FachgebietTheoretische Informatik
KeywordsMachine Learning, Support Vector Machines, Graphical Models, Convex Optimization

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandUSA
OrtIthaca
Universität/InstitutionCornell University
Institut/AbteilungDepartment of Computer Science

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Stefan WrobelFraunhofer-Institut für Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssysteme (IAIS), Sankt Augustin
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.01.2009

Programm(e)

2008Fraunhofer-Bessel-Forschungspreis-Programm

Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden

Professor Joachims is an international authority in the subfield of computer science known as Machine Learning which is concerned with the automated and adaptive analysis of large volumes of data. Professor Joachims has developed a leading class of algorithms based on the so-called Support Vector Machine for analyzing objects of complex structures such as chemical molecules or textual documents. In Germany, Professor Joachims will focus on making his algorithms scale to very large data collections through the use of appropriate optimizations and approximations, and will investigate new learning paradigms such as transductive and semi-supervised learning for structured objects.