Vasile Palade

Dr. Vasile Palade is a Reader in Pervasive Computing in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing and a member of the Cogent Computing Applied Research Centre at Coventry University. He previously held academic and research positions at the University of Oxford, UK (Departmental Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science), University of Hull, UK (Research Fellow in the Department of Engineering) and the University of Galati, Romania (Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering).

His research interests lie in the area of machine learning/computational intelligence, and encompass mainly neuro-fuzzy systems, various nature inspired algorithms such as swarm optimization algorithms, hybrid intelligent systems, ensemble of classifiers, class imbalance learning. Application areas include Bioinformatics problems, fault diagnosis, and web usage mining, among others.

Dr. Palade is author and co-author of more than 100 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.