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 SIS welcomes F. Javier
Díez, of the Spanish National University for
Distance Education, to the SIS Colloquium Series on
Thursday, October 18, 2007. Dr. Diez, who is
an Associate Professor in the Department of Artificial
Intelligence, will discuss “Probabilistic Graphical
Models for Medical Decision Making.” The
colloquium will take place from 10:30 am to 12:00 noon
in Rooms 501 and 522 of the SIS Building. This
lecture is free and open to the public.
In this lecture, Dr. Díez will present some
of the models built at the Research Centre on Intelligent
Decision-Support Systems at the Spanish National University
for Distance Education for different medical domains.
These models include Bayesian networks and influence
diagrams, as well as new types of models developed
by his group, such as decision analysis networks, networks
of probabilistic events in discrete time, and dynamic
LIMIDs.
Professor Díez received a B.S. in Physics from
the UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación
a Distancia / Spanish University for Distance Education)
and a M.S. in Theoretical Physics from the Universidad
Autónoma de Madrid. He was awarded his
Ph.D. in 1994 by the Department of Computer Science
and Automatics of the UNED. His thesis on artificial
intelligence, entitled Sistema Experto Bayesiano para
Ecocardiografía (Bayesian Expert System for
Echocardiography), was awarded the Fundesco Prize for
Doctoral Dissertations.
He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department
of Artificial Intelligence at UNED. His main research
areas are the management of uncertainty in artificial
intelligence, especially with Bayesian networks and
influence diagrams, and the construction of medical
expert systems. He has been "principal
investigator" for the two phases of the Elvira
project and for the project Diagnostic Systems Based
on Graphical Decision-Theoretic Methods, a joint collaboration
between the USA, Poland and Spain. |
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