José Hernández-Orallo
Professor, Departament de Sistemes Informàtics i Computació Valencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Universitat Politècnica de València Phone: + 34 96 3877007 Ext.: 73585, Office: DSIC (1F): 236 Address: Camí de Vera 14, E-46071 València, EU Email: jorallo@upv.es Associate Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of IntelligenceRecent Highlights
- Co-organising the SafeAI Workshop at AAAI 2020.
- Co-organising the 1st Workshop on Evaluating Progress in AI (EPAI2020) at ECAI 2020.
- Four papers accepted for ECAI 2020: "Tracking AI: The Capability is (Not) Near" with F. Martínez-Plumed and E. Gómez, "AI Paradigms and AI Safety: Mapping Artefacts and Techniques to Safety Issues" with F. Martínez-Plumed, Shahar Avin, Jess Whittlestone and Seán O h'Eigeartaigh, "Finite and Confident Teaching in Expectation:Sampling from Infinite Concept Classes" with J.A. Telle and "Family and Prejudice: A Behavioural Taxonomy of Machine Learning Techniques" with the DMIP team.
- Read our paper: CRISP-DM Twenty Years Later: From Data Mining Processes to Data Science Trajectories, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering journal, 2020.
- Read our paper: "Does AI Qualify for the Job? A Bidirectional Model Mapping Labour and AI Intensities", AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society, 2020.
- Read our paper: The Teaching Size: Computable Teachers and Learners for Universal Languages" with Jan Arne Telle and Cèsar Ferri, Machine Learning Journal, 2019
- Co-organised the Animal-AI Olympics, 2019.
- Co-organised the ECMLPKDD workshop on Automating Data Science (AutoDS), 2019.
- Read our paper: Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research: "AI Generality and Spearman's Law of Diminishing Returns", 2019.
- Co-organised the AISafety Workshop at IJCAI 2019.
- Gave a talk at the Cambridge Science Festival, 2019.
- Measure for measure column: "Unbridled mental power", Nature Physics, vol. 15, January 2019.
- Read our paper (with Fernando Martínez-Plumed) "Dual Indicators to Analyse AI Benchmarks: Difficulty, Discrimination, Ability and Generality", IEEE Transactions on Games, 2019.
- Participated at the HumaInt Winter School at the JRC of the European Commission, with two invited talks: Artificial Intelligence : Present, Future and Beyond and The What and How of AI Evaluation.
- Read our paper (with Karina Vold): "AI Extenders: The Ethical and Societal Implications of Humans Cognitively Extended by AI", AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society, Honolulu, 27-28 January 2019. (Presentation).
- Co-organised The AAAI's Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety at AAAI 2019, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2019. Also presented Surveying Safety-Relevant AI Characteristics
- Read our paper (with C. Ferri and P. Flach): Setting Decision Thresholds when Operating Conditions are Uncertain", Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal 2019.
- Read our paper Item Response Theory in AI: Analysing Machine Learning Classifiers at the Instance Level", Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2019.
RESEARCH
One of the great scientific challenges of this century is to understand what intelligence is and how it can be recreated. My bit is, on one hand, the evaluation and measurement of intelligent systems in general and machine learning in particular and, on the other hand, some more applied research on data science, data mining and inductive programming. However, I'm interested in many other things, and my publication profiles below can give a better account of what my research really looks like: Here you also have a selection of some recent tutorials and presentations:- Surveying Safety-Relevant AI Characteristics, SafeAI2019 AAAI Workshop, Honolulu, 27 January 2019.
- AI Extenders: The Ethical and Societal Implications of Humans Cognitively Extended by AI, AAAI / ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society, Honolulu, 27-28 January 2019.
- Artificial Intelligence : Present, Future and Beyond, [video], HUMAINT Winter school on AI and its ethical, social, legal and economic impact, JRC Seville, February 4-8th, 2019.
- The What and How of AI Evaluation, [video], HUMAINT Winter school on AI and its ethical, social, legal and economic impact, JRC Seville, February 4-8th, 2019.
- Artificial Intelligence and Data Science : Looking Ahead, Springer Nature Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine, Madrid 7th February 2019.
- Diversity Unites Intelligence: Measuring Generality at Varieties of Minds 2018 in Cambridge, 2018
- Measuring A(G)I Right: Some Theoretical and Practical Considerations at DeepMind, London, 2018
- Natural and Artificial Intelligence: Measures, Maps and Taxonomies at Clare Hall, Cambridge, 2018
- The Mythical Human-Level Machine Intelligence at Philosophy and Theory of AI in Leeds, 2017
- FHI, Oxford, Aug 2016, or the very similar CSER, Cambridge, Aug 2016, about the measurement of natural and artificial intelligence
- Machine learning performance evaluation: tips and pitfalls at PAPIs Connect, 2016
- AGI 2015 Tutorial: Evaluation of Intelligent Systems
- Invited Talk at ECML Workshop on Learning over Multiple Contexts 2014
- Machine intelligence evaluation: from the Turing Test to the present Day (and beyond), for a Turing centenary celebration
OUR GROUP
Data Mining, Machine Intelligence and Inductive Programming (DMIP), part of the ELP group.- You can see the projects, software and other activities of our group here.
- If you're a student or an academic and want to collaborate with us or get involved with our group, please feel free to contact us.
- We are part of the Valencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
TEACHING
- More than 10,000 students (as for 2020) on my MOOC EDX course on Machine Learning and Data Science (in Spanish) I currently teach several courses on data science and data mining at the master level.
- I also had an undergraduate database course for many years.
TRANSFER
We have had projects, collaborations and visits with several companies in different areas: health, retailing, software development, automotive, ... Recently, I've been managing two "Cátedras/Aulas de Empresa":- Agreement (cátedra) with BigML on machine learning.
- Agreement (aula) with Everis on employability in information technology.
SHORT BIO
José Hernández-Orallo is Professor at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia. He received a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from UPV, partly completed at the École Nationale Supérieure de l'Électronique et de ses Applications (France), and a Ph.D. in Logic with a doctoral extraordinary prize from the University of Valencia. His academic and research activities have spanned several areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science and information systems. He has published five books and more than a hundred journal articles and conference papers on these topics. His research in the area of machine intelligence evaluation has been covered by several popular outlets, such as The Economist, New Scientist or Nature. His most recent book addresses an integrated view of the evaluation of natural and artificial intelligence (Cambridge University Press, 2017, PROSE Award 2018).IN THE MEDIA (and blogs)
Don't take this too seriously:- The Economist, March 3rd 2011
- New Scientist Sat 10/Sept/2011, pp42-45.
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- Eurekalert. Global news service of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
- ACM Tech News
- Vokrug Sveta (Russia)
- BBC News
- Nature
- Inverse
- Financial Times
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