Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Professor at the Indian Institute of Statistics in Calcutta (India) and currently visiting France at LIP 6 (Sorbonne University) as part of the CEFIPRA program, will make a presentation on October 15 at 4 pm in the meeting room of the laboratory on the site of Vitry sur Seine. This presentation should be of interest to all researchers in the laboratory working in the field of optimization methods.
Contact : Patrick Siarry.
Title : Advances in Multiobjective Optimization and Applications in Clustering and Computational Biology
Abstract: Many real-life problems require the simultaneous optimization of multiple objectives that often conflict with each other. Such problems are referred to as multiobjective optimization (MOO) problems. In contrast to single objective optimization, which yields a single best solution, in MOO the final solution set contains a number of Pareto-optimal solutions, none of which can be further improved on any one objective without degrading it on another. The present talk will first explain the basic principles of multiobjective optimization, and will then provide an overview of a popular multiobjective optimization technique. Some applications of multiobjective optimization in clustering and computational biology will be discussed. To help understand the applications in computational biology better, a brief introduction to molecular biology will be presented. The talk will conclude with a mention of current trend of research in multiobjective optimization.
Biosketch: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay joined the Machine Intelligence Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute as a faculty member in 1999, after completing her PhD from the same Institute.. She is currently the Director of the Institute. Her areas of research interest include computational biology and bioinformatics, soft and evolutionary computation, pattern recognition and data mining. In these areas she has published more than 300 research articles in various journal, conferences and edited volumes. She has published six authored and edited books from publishers like Springer, World Scientific and Wiley. Sanghamitra has worked in various Universities and Institutes world-wide including in USA, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, China, Slovenia and Mexico, and delivered invited lectures in many more countries. She has received several awards and fellowships including the Bhatnagar Prize, Infosys award, TWAS Prize, DBT National Women Bioscientist Award (Young), INAE Silver Jubilee Prize, Young scientist/engineer medals of INSA, INAE and Science Congress, JC Bose Fellowship, Swarnajayanti Fellowship and Humboldt Fellowship. She is a Senior Associate of ICTP and Fellow of INSA, INAE, NASI and IEEE. She is currently a member of the Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council of the Prime Minister of India.