Some research interests

• Machine learning and more specifically kernel methods, relations and connections with graphical models
• Clustering/learning with side-information, transduction
• Convex methods and more specifically convex relaxations of combinatorial problems
• Spectral methods in machine learning, such as PCA, CCA, PLS, spectral clustering, LDA, metric learning with side-information, GSVD...
• Integer programming and applications
• Learning from heterogeneous sources of information
• Learning theory
• Bioinformatics
• Graphical models
• ICA
• Quantum information theory
• Suffix trees, string matching,...
• Transformational grammars, pattern languages,...
• ...

Reviewer for...

Journals:

• Journal of Machine Learning Research
• Machine Learning
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
• Pattern Recognition Letters
• IEEE Transactions on CAS II
• Biometrics
• Bioinformatics

Conferences:

• Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
• Computational Learning Theory (COLT)
• Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT)
• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
• Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB)
• ...

Furthermore, I'm an associate editor of the journal Neural Processing Letters.