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Tomáš Kliegr, Ph.D. is an associate professor in Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of University of Economics Prague, where he works in the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery group.

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Teaching (Winter 2020/202!)

• Information and knowledge processing

• Data Science in Python and R

Upcoming conferences

• International Workshop on Explainable and Interpretable Machine Learning (XI-ML) co-located with KI 2020, Sept. 21, 2020, Bamberg, Germany.

Upcoming RuleML Webinars

2020-08-26 Ioannis Mollas and Nick Bassiliades. Explainable machine learning and Random Forests

Since 2019 I organize the RuleML webinar (https://wiki.ruleml.org/index.php/RuleML_Webinar).

News

• 8 September 2020. Proceedings or RuleML+RR are now on-line. https://www.springer.com/978-3-030-57976-0

• 21 August 2020. Our paper Editable Machine Learning Models? A rule-based framework for user studies of explainability will soon appear in Journal of Advances in Data Analysis and Classification (Springer) Preprint: https://nb.vse.cz/~klit01/papers/RuleEditor.pdf

• Paper presenting my student's master thesis Action Rules: Counterfactual Explanations in Python is the winner of the 14th Rule Challenge 2020 competition. Paper is freely available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2644/. Lukáš joins our department as a PhD student.

• 1 February 2020. Our paper Advances in machine learning for the behavioral sciences appears in a printed issue of American Behavioral Scientist. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03249

• 27 Dec 2019. Paper "Associative Classification in R: arc, arulesCBA, and rCBA" featuring my arc package was published in the R Journal. This is a joint paper with Michael Hahsler (Southern Metodist University) and Ian Johnson (Google), authors of arulesCBA, and Jaroslav Kuchař (Czech Technical University), author of rCBA.

• 24 Dec 2019. Our paper "On Cognitive Preferences and the Interpretability of Rule-based Models." is on-line first in Machine Learning (Springer) - Open Access.

• I serve as program co-chair of RuleML+RR 2020@DeclarativeAI conference in Oslo.

• 22 Sep 2019. Our paper "Tuning Hyperparameters of Classification Based on Associations (CBA)" was presented at ITAT 2019 in Donovaly

• 19 Sep 2019 Our paper PyIDS–Python Implementation of Interpretable Decision Sets Algorithm by Lakkaraju et al, 2016. received the best RuleML Challenge Award at RuleML+RR 2019 in Bolzano.

Research interests

• explainable machine learning (rule learning, cognitively-inspired machine learning)

• natural language processing (entity recognition, knowledge graphs)

• preference learning, utility theory

Membership in Professional societies

DBpedia association, Czech society for cybernetics and Informatics (Artificial Intelligence working group), Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (Data Science Society)