Granular Computing Based Machine Learning / Studies in Big Data Bd.35 (PDF)

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Mihaela Cocea is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing at the University of Portsmouth. She holds a BSc in Computer Science, a BSc in Psychology and Education and a MSc in Communication and Human Relations from the University of Iasi, Romania. She also has an MSc by Research in Learning Technologies from the National College of Ireland (2007), a PhD in Computer Science from Birkbeck College, University of London, UK (2011), and a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education from the University of Portsmouth (2012).

Her research interests are in the area of Intelligent System, focusing on intelligent techniques using data and knowledge engineering to provide adaptation and personalisation, as well as decision support. She has received funding through: (a) scholarships from the National College of Ireland and Birkbeck College, University of London, UK; (b) an internship through the EU Leonardo da Vinci programme; (b) a mobility fellowship from the European Network of Excellence in Technology Enhanced Learning (STELLARnet); (c) research development funds from the University of Portsmouth and (d) travel grants from EATEL (European Association for Technology Enhanced Learning), User Modeling Inc. and NSF (National Science Foundation).

She has published over 75 peer-reviewed papers and has received a Best Project Award at the Summer School on Personalized e-Learning, Dublin (2006), a Best PhD paper award at the 14th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (2010) and was runner up for the 2011 Best PhD Thesis in the School of Business, Economics & Informatics, Birkbeck College, University of London. She acted as co-chair for the "Architectures, techniques & methodologies for UMAP" track of the 24th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalisation (UMAP 2016), the Workshop on Social Media Analysis in conjunction with the 33rd International Conference of the British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI 2013), and the International Workshop on Sentiment Discovery from Affective Data (SDAD) in conjunction with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2012). She is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics Society.