Data Mining Research Group

Formed in January, 2005, the Data Mining Research Group met on a weekly basis until 2008 to discuss papers, research, and tools in Data Mining, Statistical Learning, and Mathematical Modelling.

The group included such luminaries as:

  • Charles Bouveyron, University Paris I
  • Hugh Chipman, Professor, Acadia Math & Stats
  • Bill Li, Ph.D. candidate, McGill
  • Duane Currie, System Analyst, ACMMAC
  • John Healey, Government of Canada
  • Wilson Lu, Associated Professor, Acadia Math & Stats
  • Sofia Mosesova, Biostatistician, Genentech
  • Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, now at Alberta Children's hospital.
  • Erika Nahm, now working for the Government of Canada
  • Danny Silver, Associate Professor, Acadia Computer Science
  • Wanhua Su, Assistant Professor, Macewan University
  • Sunny Wang, Assistant Professor, StFx University
  • Yuenheng Wu, Actuarial Analyst, Morneau Sobeco

The list of topics discussed is now on a separate webpage. We also have a list of possible papers we might read.

In Fall 2007, the group met as the "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Reading Group".