On 26 September, 2024, Kalifou René  Traoré defended his thesis entitled Automated Machine Learning for applications in Earth Observation, supervised by Prof. Dr. Xiaoxiang Zhu. The defense committee was chaired by Prof. Dr. Yuanyuan Wang. We particularly appreciate the engagement of the examiners Prof. Dr. Francisco Chicano from the University of Málaga.

Congratulations, Dr. Traoré !

References:

Traoré, Kalifou René and Camero, Andrés and Zhu, Xiao Xiang, Fitness Landscape Footprint: A Framework to Compare Neural Architecture Search Problems, Under review at Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2023
 

Traoré, Kalifou René and Camero, Andrés and Zhu, Xiao Xiang (2023), A Data-driven Approach to Neural Architecture Search Initialization, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1-28. Springer Nature, doi:
10.1007/s10472-022-09823-0. ISSN 1012-2443.

Traoré, Kalifou René and Camero, Andrés and Zhu, Xiao Xiang (2021), Compact Neural Architecture Search for Local Climate Zones Classification, In: 29th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, pp. 393-398. The 29th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN), 06. - 08. Oct. 2021, Online. doi: 10.14428/esann/2021.ES2021-55. ISBN ISBN 978287587082-7

Traoré, Kalifou René and Camero, Andrés and Zhu, Xiao Xiang (2023), We Won’t Get Fooled Again: When Performance Metric Malfunction Affects the Landscape of Hyperparameter Optimization Problems, In: 6th International Conference on Optimization and Learning, OLA 2023, 1824, pp. 148-160. Springer, Cham, International Conference on Optimization and Learning, OLA 2023, 3-5 May 2023, Malaga, Spain, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-34020-8 11. ISBN 978-303134019-2. ISSN 1865-0929

Traoré, Kalifou René and Camero, Andrés and Zhu, Xiao Xiang (2022) Landscape of Neural Architecture Search across sensors: how much do they differ?, In: ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 3-2022, pp. 217-224, XXIV ISPRS Congress, 6.-11. June 2022, Nice, France, doi: 10.5194/isprs-annals-V-3-2022-217-2022. ISSN 2194-9042
 

Traoré, Kalifou René and Camero, Andrés and Zhu, Xiao Xiang (2021), Lessons from Clustering of a Search Space: a Data-driven initialization technique to Search, Workshop on Data Science meets Optimization, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Online