Peter A. Flach



Professor of Artificial Intelligence
- Intelligent Systems Laboratory
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Bristol
- The Merchant Venturers Building, Room 3.31
- Woodland Road
- Bristol BS8 1UB, United Kingdom
- Phone: +44-117-95-45162
- Fax: +44-117-95-45208
- School reception: +44-117-33-15201
- Email: Peter.Flach@bristol.ac.uk
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Short bio
Peter Flach has been Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the
University of Bristol since 2003.
An internationally leading scholar in the
evaluation and improvement of machine learning
models using ROC analysis and calibration, he has also
published
on mining highly structured data, and on the methodology of data science.
His books include
Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (John Wiley, 1994)
and
Machine Learning: the Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
From 2010 until 2020, Prof Flach was Editor-in-Chief of the
Machine Learning journal,
one of the two top journals in the field that has been published
for over 25 years by Kluwer and now Springer.
He was Programme Co-Chair of the
1999 International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, the
2001 European Conference on Machine Learning, the
2009 ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, and the
2012 European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases in Bristol.
He is a founding board member and current President of the
European Association for Data Science.
He is a Fellow of the
Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
Research interests