Mens Ex Machina, Mind from the Machine or “Ο από Μηχανής Νους” paraphrases the Latin expression Deus Ex Machina, God from the Machine.
We are a research group, founded in October 2006, led by Professor Ioannis Tsamardinos, interested in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Biomedical Informatics and affiliated with the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete. The aims of the group are to progress science and disseminate knowledge via educational activities and computer tools. Our group is involved in:
Research
Theoretical, algorithmic, and applied research in all of the above areas; we are also involved in interdisciplinary collaborations with biologists, physicians and practitioners from other fields.
Education
Educational activities, such as teaching university courses, tutorials, summer schools, as well as supervising undergraduate dissertations, masters projects, and Ph.D. theses.
Systems and Software
Implementation of tools, systems, and code libraries to aid the dissemination of the research results. Funding is provided from and through the University of Crete, often originating from European and International research grants.
Current research activities
Current research activities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Causal discovery methods and the induction of causal models from observational studies. Specifically, we have recently introduced the problem of Integrative Causal Analysis (INCA).
- Feature selection (a.k.a. variable selection) for classification and regression.
- Induction of graphical models, such as Bayesian Networks, from data.
- Analysis of biomedical data and applications of AI and Machine Learning.