The PhD defence and trial lecture will be fully digital and streamed directly using Zoom. The host of the session will moderate the technicalities while the chair of the defence will moderate the disputation.
Ex auditorio questions: the chair of the defence will invite the audience to ask ex auditorio questions either written or oral. This can be requested by clicking 'Participants -> Raise hand'.
Trial lecture
Title: "Domain adaptation and zero-shot learning - methods and applications"
Main research findings
Sleep apnea (SA) is a severe, common, and largely under-diagnosed sleep-related breathing disorder. In this PhD Thesis, we aim to reliably perform SA detection with low cost sensors and Machine Learning (ML). We train ML models with many examples (i.e., supervised learning) in form of sleep monitoring data that is labeled by sleep experts. In the early phases of the project we could demonstrate that ML is able to detect SA with high performance, even if only a single signal is used. However, this works only if there is enough training data with sufficient quality. This is often not given for SA, because (1) most sleep monitoring data cannot be shared due to privacy concerns, (2) the need for sleep experts makes labelling expensive and can introduce label errors, and (3) it is unclear whether different sensors for the same signal represent different domains. To address these issues we developed in this PhD Thesis new solutions to augment sleep monitoring data sets with synthetic data, to generate anonymous data sets that are robust against known attacks, to correct wrong labels, and to enable adaptation of ML models to new domains (i.e., new sensors).
Adjudication committee
- Professor Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan
- Associate Professor Carolina Varon Perez, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
- Professor Torbjørn Rognes, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Supervisors
- Professor Vera Goebel, Department of Informatics, UiO
- Researcher Stein Kristiansen, Department of Informatics, UiO
- Professor Knut Liestøl, Department of Informatics, UiO
- Professor Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore
Chair of defence:
Associate Professor Petter Nielsen, Department of Informatics, UiO
Contact information to Department: Mozhdeh Sheibani Harat