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We all know that involving students in undergraduate research is a high impact practice. Today, I was impressed by the sophistication of the studies being conducted at SIUE, sometimes by first-year college students. The cross-disciplinary collaborations were also noteworthy, such as the ones between computer science and biological sciences. I wish I could tell you more, but you can check out the amazing work being done by these students and faculty at https://www.siue.edu/urca/. Truly impressive!

It was high time Brac University dived into the culture of hosting research talks and finally, the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences has taken the initiative. With the aim of building a community for the Maths and Physics enthusiasts, “Merul Badda Talks in Math and Physics” started its journey on 24th October. To know more about this long-awaited initiative, read the entire article here: https://lnkd.in/gJQCPCYT

I have officially started the fall semester Master of Science in Computer Science at Istanbul Technical University. The academic journey is in the way like an ocean as well as life dancing on the way of water. If once water pops up, we can use the actual density to predict the probability. Way to go there full of energy and way to catch up the sky with the next. 

As permanent academic staff working at various universities across the globe for over the last decade, believe me when I say that on the whole, as institutions, they can be contradictorily perplexing. Wanting on one hand to be relevant and advocating for change. They also maintain some of the most archaic hierarchies possible – almost medieval one might say ;). University hiring and promotion/recognition policies are often exclusive, and restrictive. They can be counterproductive to hiring and keeping progressive thinkers and doers that have equivalency outside of a certain paradigm of knowledge/worldview/experience. I cannot express how exciting it is to see a university boldly take a stance and make radical change from within,  with the implementation of 'Everyone Professor' – it will have huge ripple effect creating much more equality and inclusion. Hoping the rest of the world - especially the ‘progressive’ universities are taking note!

Iterative target updation-based boosting ensembles for outlier detection by Akanksha Mukhriya and Rajeev Kumar in Pattern Recognition, Feb. 2025 https://lnkd.in/gSfJBeJa In unsupervised settings, the goodness of the alleged outlier set, the target, is crucial. The entire ensemble design is centered around this target. In this work, we propose an unsupervised outlier ensemble, iBoost, which employs iterative target updation with a boosting-based selection. The proposed iBoost sequentially revises the target by applying multiple selection rounds. We use agreement rates with averages to estimate the errors of detectors by which inaccurate detectors are restricted. Multiple rounds of a boosting-based selection are then conducted, where the target for each round is calculated using the outcome of the previous round. Our modified boosting ensemble, BoostSel+, implements an add-on boosting step for the initial selection and uses weighted aggregation for the target. These weights are derived from detectors’ errors. Such continuous reformations lead to a robust target with diverse quality outliers. Experimental results on benchmark datasets suggest that iBoost offers up to 12% improvement in detection performance. It also reveals up to 80% more non-average outliers in its exclusive set to the best competitor. Highlights • We propose an ensemble approach for unsupervised outlier detection which focuses on the effective formation of the target, the alleged outlier set. • We apply multiple rounds of a boosting-based selection for an updated target set, formed iteratively from the previous round’s selection and detector errors. • We use average-based agreement rates to evaluate errors of input detectors and to block bad ones. • We devise a modified version of a boosting-based ensemble selector that utilizes an add-on boosting step and detectors’ errors. • Experiments validate that the proposed approach offers better diversity from good detectors.

Positions are available on topics realted to remote sensing data analysis for both Earth Obervation and Planetary Exploration with machine learning and artificial intelligence approaches.

Excited to share that I have successfully completed my Master's degree at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering University of Sarajevo, specializing in Computer Science and Informatics! 🥳 The topic of my Master's thesis was: "Optimization of Transformer Model Hyperparameters for Solving Textual Content Classification Problems".

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Regions’ education is approaching the level of the capital’s During Open Doors Days, parents and prospective students frequently ask whether attending school X is a prerequisite for attending university Y. For example, is enrollment in Kapitsa Phystech Lyceum in Moscow a prerequisite for admission to MIPT? The percentage of graduates from different schools who got into prestigious Russian universities has been calculated by ranking organization RAEX. The outcomes are surprising and fascinating at the same time. Firstly, just three new universities have made it into the top 30. MSU's School of Advanced Studies takes first place, followed by the Kapitsa Phystech Lyceum, which remains in second place. Third place is presently occupied by the "Second School" lyceum. Most remarkably, in just a single year, the Tyumen School of Physics and Mathematics rose from 14th to 9th rank.. Second, the rankings unequivocally demonstrate that local schools are prepared to go off against those in the city. The proportion of elite schools in Moscow has dropped from 45% to 31% in the past four years..