People
Isabel Valera
Saarland Informatics Campus
Building E1 1, R. 225
For administrative services, contact ml-office@lists.saarland-informatics-campus.de
To apply for PhD/PostDoc/HiWi/Thesis, see the information on the “Positions” page for the correct e-mail to use.
Otherwise, contact ivalera@cs.uni-saarland.de.
About me
I am a full Professor on Machine Learning at the Department of Computer Science of Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany), and Adjunct Faculty at MPI for Software Systems in Saarbrücken (Saarbrücken, Germany).
I am a fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), where I am part of the Robust Machine Learning Program and of the Saarbrücken Artificial Intelligence & Machine learning (Sam) Unit.
Prior to this, I was an independent group leader at the MPI for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen (Germany) until the end of the year. I have held a German Humboldt Post-Doctoral Fellowship, and a “Minerva fast track” fellowship from the Max Planck Society. I obtained my PhD in 2014 and MSc degree in 2012 from the University Carlos III in Madrid (Spain), and worked as postdoctoral researcher at the MPI for Software Systems (Germany) and at the University of Cambridge (UK).
Publications
2014
Sinfinite factorial unbounded hidden Markov model for blind multiuser channel estimation Proceedings Article
In: 4th International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing, CIP 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 26-28, 2014, pp. 1–6, IEEE, 2014.
General Table Completion using a Bayesian Nonparametric Model Proceedings Article
In: Ghahramani, Zoubin; Welling, Max; Cortes, Corinna; Lawrence, Neil D.; Weinberger, Kilian Q. (Ed.): Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2014, December 8-13 2014, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, pp. 981–989, 2014.
Shaping Social Activity by Incentivizing Users Proceedings Article
In: Ghahramani, Zoubin; Welling, Max; Cortes, Corinna; Lawrence, Neil D.; Weinberger, Kilian Q. (Ed.): Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2014, December 8-13 2014, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, pp. 2474–2482, 2014.
Modeling Diffusion of Competing Products and Conventions in Social Media Journal Article
In: CoRR, vol. abs/1406.0516, 2014.
2013
On the maximum likelihood estimation of the ToA under an imperfect path loss exponent Journal Article
In: EURASIP J. Wirel. Commun. Netw., vol. 2013, pp. 158, 2013.
2012
Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling of Suicide Attempts Proceedings Article
In: Bartlett, Peter L.; Pereira, Fernando C. N.; Burges, Christopher J. C.; Bottou, Léon; Weinberger, Kilian Q. (Ed.): Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25: 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2012. Proceedings of a meeting held December 3-6, 2012, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, United States, pp. 1862–1870, 2012.
2010
A hybrid SS-TOA wireless geolocation based on path attenuation under imperfect path loss exponent Proceedings Article
In: 18th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2010, Aalborg, Denmark, August 23-27, 2010, pp. 681–685, IEEE, 2010.