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Full Professor
University of Waikato (New Zealand) and Institute Polytechnique de Paris (France)
Albert Bifet is the Director of the AI Institute at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and a Professor at Telecom Paris, Institute Polytechnique de Paris, France. His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Science, and Machine Learning for Data Streams. He is leading the TAIAO Environmental Data Science project and co-leading the open source projects MOA Massive On-line Analysis, StreamDM for Spark Streaming and SAMOA Scalable Advanced Massive Online Analysis. He is the co-author of a book on Machine Learning from Data Streams published at MIT Press. He is a recipient of the best paper award at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) 2023, and he served as general co-chair of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) 2024.