Vakhtang Putkaradze | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Alberta

Vakhtang Putkaradze holds a PhD in theoretical physics (1997) from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has held the position of L.E. Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago, faculty positions at the New Mexico and Colorado State Universities, and most recently the title of Centennial Professor of Mathematics at the University of Alberta. In addition, he was the Site Director for Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) at the UofA. He also held visiting professorship positions at the Ibaraki and Kyoto Universities (Japan), TU Dublin (Ireland), and University of Aix-Marseille (France). Vakhtang has received numerous prizes at the university, national, and international level, including the CAIMS-Fields Prize for Industrial Mathematics, University of Alberta Commercialization Award, Japanese Society for Promotion of Sciences Senior Award, Flaherty Visiting Professorship, and Humboldt Fellowship, in addition to several teaching awards.

He has been a member of the PIMS Board of Directors since 2020.

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Recently, Machine Learning (ML) approaches to data assimilation and modelling have been very successful in interpreting large amounts of data, such as human behavior prediction, marketing, etc. However, direct applications of machine learning methods...

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