Nello Cristianini

Nello Cristianini
Born	Nello Cristianini 1968 (age 55–56) Gorizia, Italy
Residence	United Kingdom
Fields	Artificial intelligence
Institutions	University of Bristol University of California, Davis
Alma mater	University of Trieste, University of London, University of Bristol
Known for	Statistical Learning, Media Content Analysis, Support Vector Machines, Big Data
Notable awards	Royal Society Wolfson Reearch Merit, ERC Advanced Grant
Website www.bris.ac.uk/engineering/people/nello-cristianini/

Nello Cristianini (born 1968) is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol.

Education

Cristianini holds a degree in Physics from the University of Trieste, a Master in Computational Intelligence from the University of London and a PhD from the University of Bristol. Previously he has been an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis.

Research

His research contributions encompass the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence and bioinformatics. Particularly, his work has focused on statistical analysis of learning algorithms, to its application to support vector machines, kernel methods and other algorithms. Cristianini is the co-author of two widely known books in machine learning, An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis and a book in bioinformatics "Introduction to Computational Genomics".

In June 2014, Nello Cristianini was included in a list of the "most influential scientists of the decade" compiled by Thomson Reuters (listing the top one per cent of scientists who are “the world’s leading scientific minds” and whose publications are among the most influential in their fields). [1] [2] [3]

Recent research has focused on the big-data analysis of newspapers content, the analysis of social media content, and the ethical implication of data-driven approaches to science and society. Previous research had focused on unified theoretical frameworks for statistical pattern analysis; machine learning and artificial intelligence; machine translation; bioinformatics.

Awards and honours

Cristianini is a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and a current holder of a European Research Council Advanced Grant.

External links

• Support Vector Machines: Book and Resources
• Personal Web Page
• Bioinformatics Text Book
• Bristol University fab five among world's finest scientists; The Bristol Post | August 08, 2014
• Five Bristol scientists named among “the world’s leading scientific minds”, University of Bristol