Learning Intelligent Assistants for Understanding Behavior
Dragos Margineantu is a Senior Scientist and Technical Fellow at Boeing where his work and research interests are in machine learning, building systems that interact with humans and form teams with humans, and on applying machine learning techniques to practical tasks. In his role, he focuses on anomaly detection and rare event detection in multivariate sensor data; online learning; interactive learning and knowledge-based learning; object detection in images; machine learning tools for computer vision; intent analysis and intent recognition; inverse reinforcement learning, inverse planning; and active learning and ensemble learning (applied and integrated). Margineantu has chaired numerous conferences and workshops, most recently KDD-2015 Industry and Government Track. Prior to Boeing, he served as Director, Machine Learning at First Data Corporation. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science / Machine Learning from Oregon State University in 2001.