Speaker: Professor Nelishia Pillay

Professor Nelishia will introduce some of the work of her research group which focuses on artificial intelligence for sustainable development, and share some of the applications pertaining to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Biography: Nelishia Pillay is a Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She holds the Multichoice Joint-Chair in Machine Learning and SARChI Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development. She is chair of the IEEE Task Force on Automated Algorithm Design, Configuration and Selection, IEEE CIS Women in Computational Intelligence (WCI) subcommittee, IEEE Mentoring Program subcommittee and IEEE CIS Awards subcommittee for Outstanding PhD. She is associate editor for IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization and the Journal of Scheduling. Her research areas include hyper-heuristics, automated design of machine learning and search techniques, transfer learning, combinatorial optimization, genetic programming, genetic algorithms and deep learning for and machine learning and optimization for sustainable development and equity, diversity and inclusion. These are the focus areas of the NICOG (Nature-Inspired Computing Optimization) research group which she has established. She has published in these areas in journals, national and international conference proceedings. She has served on program committees for numerous national and international conferences and is a reviewer for various international journals.

WED 1 MARCH 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM AEDT MELBOURNE

ZOOM MEETING ID: 873 1557 5255; PASSWORD: 778635