Alona Fyshe
Assistant Professor University of Victoria, Computer Science Department
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Alona Fyshe is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Victoria and a CIFAR Global Scholar. Alona received her BSc and MSc in Computing Science from the University of Alberta, and a PhD in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University. Alona uses machine learning to leverage large amounts of text and neuroimaging data to understand how people mentally combine words to create higher-order meaning.
Industry Expertise
Computer Software
Research
Areas of Expertise
Machine Learning
Neuroscience and Language
Computational Linguistics
Natural Language Processing
Data Analysis and Data Mining
Data Science
Computer Science
Accomplishments
Canadian Institute For Advanced Research Global Scholar
2016-07-09
The CIFAR Global Scholar award funds researchers within five years of their first academic appointment, helping them build research networks and develop essential skills needed to become leaders in global research
https://www.cifar.ca/assets/inaugural-cifar-azrieli-global-scholars-appointed/
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D.
Machine Learning
2015
University of Alberta
B.Sc.
Computing Science
2006
Languages
- English
Event Appearances
Corpora, Cognition and Composition: Exploring Semantics in the Human Brain
CLSP Seminar Johns Hopkins University
2016-02-17
The Semantics of Phrases and Sentences in the Human Brain
Research Seminar University of British Columbia
2014-09-05
Decoding semantics from phrases and sentences using magnetoencephalography.
BioMAG Halifax, NS
2014-08-26
Interpretable Semantic Vectors from a Joint Model of Brain- and Text- Based Meaning
Machine Learning Lunch Carnegie Mellon University
2014-05-12
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