The 2nd Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence Winter School 2018
10th – 13th December 2018, Bangkok, Thailand

Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul
Associate Professor in Computer Engineering Department,
Faculty of Engineering, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

Topic: String Grammar Fuzzy Clustering in Data Analysis
Abstract:
Data Analysis is a process to analyze data in terms of representing, describing,evaluating, interpreting data using statistical methods. What if the data do not come in theform of statistical representation or a vector of numbers but are in the form of syntactic data,
how do we analyze those data? One of the pattern recognition research branches is thesyntactic pattern recognition that is able to deal with this type of data set. Each sample insyntactic data set is normally represented as a string. The strings in the same data set canhave different lengths. Also, the string does not have any mathematical meaning that we cancalculated as if they are vectors of numbers. There are several syntactic pattern recognition
methods. However, one of the syntactic pattern recognition methods that is used in many
applications is a string grammar clustering method since it is easily to implement and isunderstandable to humans.
In this talk, we will introduce a set of string grammar clustering algorithms developedat Computational Intelligence Research Laboratory, Chiang Mai University. We also show
applications of these algorithms in several real-world problems, e.g., sign language translation
system, face recognition, and health applications.
Bio:

Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul (S’98–M01) received the Ph.D. degree in computerengineering and computer science from the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 2000. She iscurrently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Chiang Mai
University, Thailand. Dr. Auephanwiriyakul is a senior member of the Institute of Electricaland Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy
System, and is an Editorial Board of the Neural Computing and Applications, an Editorial Boardof the International Journal of Computational & Neural Engineering, and an Editorial Board ofthe Engineering Journal, Chiang Mai. She was a Guest Editor of the Journal of Advanced
Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics in 2004. She was a General Chair of theIEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics andComputational Biology (CIBCB 2016). She was a Technical Program Chair, Organizing
Committee in several major conferences including the IEEE International, Conference Fuzzy
Systems as well. She is also a chair of the IEEE Computational Society – Women in
Computational Intelligence and a member of six important IEEE organizations, i.e., Fuzzy
System Technical Committee, Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee, Data
Mining and Big Data Analytics, Distinguished Lecture Program, Webinars, and Student
Activities – IEEE Computational Society. As a part of these committee members, she has topromote the research, development, education, and understanding of the technology,

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10th – 13th December 2018, Bangkok, Thailand

including the creation of the theory and models as well as their applications. She was amember of IEEE P1855 Workgroup for Fuzzy Markup Language Standardization as well.
As a role of administrator, Dr. Auephanwiriyakul has worked in promoting research inthe Chiang Mai University as a director of Research Administration Center (2010 – 2012), adirector of Biomedical Engineering Center (2007 – 2010) and a Computer Engineering
Department Head (2013 – 2017). Now she is an associate director at the BiomedicalEngineering Institute, Chiang Mai University (2017 – ). As a role of researcher, she has written
many conference papers that have been published in several major conferences, e.g., the IEEEInternational Conference Fuzzy Systems and journal papers published in several major
journals including IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. She wrote several textbooksin Thai including Digital Image Processing, as well.
Contact:
Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul
Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering Biomedical Engineering InstituteChiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
sansanee@eng.cmu.ac.th