Dr. Vasile Palade is Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in the Centre for Data Science at Coventry University, UK. He joined Coventry University as a Reader in Pervasive Computing in September 2013, after several previous 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 and computational intelligence, with a focus on neural networks and deep learning, neuro-fuzzy systems, various nature inspired algorithms, such as swarm optimization algorithms. Application areas include image processing, social network data analysis and web mining, smart cities, autonomous driving, wireless sensor networks, fault diagnosis, Bioinformatics and health related problems, among others.

Vasile Palade is author and co-author of more than 200 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 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Knowledge and Information Systems, Neurocomputing (2009-2019), International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (and co-founder of this journal), etc. He has delivered keynote talks to international conferences on machine learning and applications. Vasile Palade is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Machine Learning and Applications; Deep learning; Image Processing