Mykola Pechenizkiy

Assistant Professor at Information Systems Group

Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Computer Science
Office: MF 7.099 (MetaForum)
Postal address: P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, the Netherlands;
Visiting address: Google Maps
Tel: +31 40 247 4977 (office), +31 40 247 2733 (secretary)
Fax: +31(0)40 246 3992
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Curriculum Vitae, Publications and Recent Talks

Visitors to our group

  • If you have travel funding and want to collaborate with us on a project, please e-mail me the details.
  • We also often have some funding for short and medium term visiting PhD/Postdoc researchers interested in context-aware predictive analytics (CAPA project), curriculum modeling, and other currently running data mining related projects.

Research Interests

  • knowledge discovery and data mining
  • handling concept drift and reoccuring contexts
  • context-aware predictive analytics
  • feature transformation and feature selection for classification
  • ensemble learning, classifier integration
  • rigor and relevance of data mining research

Data Mining Application Areas

Nationally and EU Funded Projects (full list of projects)

(Co-) Supervision

  • Postdocs
  • PhD Candidates
    • Jorn Bakker (Sep 2008 - Sep 2012; completed), Handling Concept Drift
    • Guido Budziak (started Jan 2010), Data-Driven Decision Making with Web Analytics
    • Evgeny Knutov (Jan 2008 - Feb 2012; completed), Generic Adaptation Framework for Web-based Systems (now Postdoc in CoDAK)
    • Julia Kiseleva (started Mar 2012), Context-Aware Predictive Web Analytics
    • Alexandr Maslov (started Aug 2011), Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data
    • David Smits (Jan 2010 - March 2012; completed), Towards a Generic Distributed Adaptive Hypermedia Environment (the first adaptive thesis)
  • PDEng Candidates (OOTI)
    • Fanis Grollios (Jan-Sep, 2012): Nano-scale 3D Image Reconstruction and Analysis (FEI)
    • Catharina Ibrahim (Jan-Sep, 2011): Web Enabled Education and Coaching Service (Philips Research)
  • Master projects & Internships in 2011-2013 (complete list for 2007-2012)
    • Ioanna Sokoreli Data Analytics Framework for Supporting Clinical Trials in Remote Patient Management (Philips Research), expected in August 2013
    • Bram Keijers Context-Aware Recommenders reference architecture (STW CAPA project, supervised together with Julia Kiseleva), expected in August 2013
    • Erkin Demirtas Multilingual sentiment analysis with Machine translation, expected in August 2013
    • Zheyi RongDistributed pattern mining (STW CAPA project, supervised together with dr. Jeroen De Knijf), expected in August 2013
    • Timur Bagautdinov Real time factor graph computational framework (EE@TUE, main advisor: Prof. dr. Bert de Vries), January 2013
    • Ajith Ganesan Failure Prediction in Twin Scan Machines (ASML), August 2012
    • Hindra Kurniawan Mining Multi Modal Data Sources for Stress-Awareness (Stress@work project), August 2012
    • Vitaly Kliger Identifying and Utilizing Contextual Information for Banner Scoring in Display Advertising (STW CAPA project, with Dr. Jeroen De Knijf), October 2012
    • Erik Tromp Sentiment Analysis on Social Media for Online Market Research (Multiscope B.V.). Erik's thesis won two awards: the Best IT-thesis of the Netherlands 2011 granted by De Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen and Berenschot thesis award
    • Murat Ongun Utilizing Social Media Data for Search Engine Marketing (Adversitement B.V.), August 2011
    • Agus Wiro Susilo Context-Aware Advertisement in Online News Media (Adversitement B.V.), August 2011
    • available projects
  • Honours projects (CSE Masters)
    • Timur Bagautdinov (Nov 2012 - Jan 2013): Managing multiple Ad serving subsystems
    • Wouter Meulemans, Sander Verdonschot, Vincent van der Weele (Sep 2009 - Mar 2010): Time-series characterization for meta-learning

Teaching in Q1 and Q2 2012 (previous years)

Professional Activities (2011-2013) (previous years)


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