My name is Anastasia Krithara and I am a third year PhD student in Xerox Research Center Europe, in Grenoble, France. I am working in collaboration with the computer science laboratory (LIP6) of Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris VI) in Paris. My research interests fall into the area of Machine Learning. In particular, I am interested in semi-supervised categorisation and active learning. I have been a PASCAL member, as a postgraduate student, since 2005.

Being a PASCAL member, and thanks to the "short visiting program" it offers, I was given the possibility to work closely with my professors Massih-Reza Amini and Patrick Gallinari in Paris
(University Paris VI). I visited the university 8-10 times during the last 2 years. The latter has strengthened our collaboration and has really contributed in my PhD research.

PASCAL gave me also the possibility last summer, to attend the 9th Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS07), in Tübigen, Germany. It has been a great opportunity to learn about many different aspects of machine learning and broaden my knowledge in the diverse fields. In addition, I believe that the summer school has been a great environment to meet people with similar interests, and international experts of the domain. I have the opportunity to discuss with them, exchange ideas and expand my network. I found the whole summer school really inspiring and motivating for the continuation of my research.

Also, thanks to PASCAL, I was given the opportunity to attend 3 workshops: In 2005, the ICML workshops in "ROC analysis", and "Learning from partially labeled data" in Bonn, Germany, and in 2006 the "International Workshop in Intelligent Information Access" in Helsinki. All three of them gave me the chance to learn about new contributions in the field and also present my own research.

Anastasia Krithara