Vasile Palade

Dr. Vasile Palade is a Reader in Pervasive Computing in the Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing at Coventry University. He previously held academic and research positions at the University of Oxford -UK, University of Hull - UK, and the University of Galati, Romania.

His research interests are in the area of machine learning/computational intelligence, and encompass neural networks and deep learning, neuro-fuzzy systems, various nature inspired algorithms such as swarm optimization algorithms, hybrid intelligent systems, ensemble of classifiers, class imbalance learning. Application areas include image processing, social network data analysis and web mining, smart cities, Bioinformatics problems, fault diagnosis, among others.

Dr. Palade is author and co-author of more than 130 papers in journals and conference proceedings as well as books on computational intelligence and applications. He has also co-edited several books including conference proceedings. He is an Associate Editor for several journals, such as Knowledge and Information Systems (Elsevier), International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (World Scientific), International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (IOS Press), Neurocomputing (Elsevier). He has delivered keynote talks to international conferences on machine learning and applications. Dr. Vasile Palade is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.