Scholar
Luís Torgo
Google Scholar ID: 2vyIvbsAAAAJ
Canada Research Chair, Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
Citations & Impact
Citations
7,635
H-index
38
i10-index
63
Publications
20
Co-authors
52
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Background
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Spatiotemporal Ocean Data Analytics and Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada
- Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal
- Invited Professor at the Stern Business School, New York University, teaching in the Master of Science in Business Analytics program in recent years
- Research focuses on Data Science, particularly Predictive Analytics for spatial, temporal, or spatiotemporal data
- Recent work emphasizes modeling rare events with applications in fraud detection, extreme value prediction, and anomaly monitoring
- Strong advocate of the R programming language; author of the widely acclaimed book 'Data Mining with R' (1st ed. 2010, 2nd ed. 2017, CRC Press)
- Co-founder and CEO of KNOYDA, a company specializing in data science training and consulting
- Deputy Director of the Institute for Big Data Analytics at Dalhousie University and leads the Ocean Data Analytics research lab
- Head of the Research Cluster on Big Data Analytics, AI and Machine Learning at Dalhousie’s Faculty of Computer Science
- Senior researcher at LIAAD/INESC Tec and associate member of the Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of Waikato
