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What are the best MSc programs for studying ML in Europe? Thanks! |
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There are many world-class researchers in ML in Europe. Which subarea of ML are you interested in? I suggest you search through the accepted papers list of recent JMLR, NIPS, and ICML and see if, for any paper that catches your eye, the authors are in europe. |
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I can recommend Jacobs University Bremen the smart systems program. It's one of the best in Germany, I've seen some rankings. I've taken a couple of courses with Professor Herbert Jaeger and can tell you he is really good, so you can learn quite a lot there. +1 for Prof. Jaeger - I did my BSc "thesis" with him back in the day.
(Jan 18 '11 at 12:33)
Dumitru Erhan
really... Me too, I did my BSc thesis on his echo state networks. You worked with those too? I took pretty much all courses he offered in those 3 year.
(Jan 18 '11 at 13:15)
Oliver Mitevski
Yup, ESNs as well. I finished in 2004 though :)
(Jan 18 '11 at 13:17)
Dumitru Erhan
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In Germany, I can recommend University of Freiburg's CS department. Computer science teaching is a bit more theoretical there than at other places, which is a good thing. Almost all groups lean towards ML/pattern recognition, AI, robotics, and logic, so you have plenty of interesting classes to pick from. Most advanced teaching is in English, and they offer a research-oriented MSc program. PS: I am biased, I studied there ... There is a good ML group at TU Berlin, which offers many classes in this area, so maybe doing a MSc in CS and picking their courses may be a good idea. Of course, there are many more good places in Europe, some were already mentioned here. 1
Actually I am just about to finish with my MSc at Freiburg University. It's definitely a good place to study in general. In terms of CS, there are plenty of courses to choose from, in pattern recognition, ML, robotics, graphics and visualization. Also the good thing is that you can also get to work on something real as a student job, and learn even more. There are plenty of student jobs. I worked for the pattern recognition chair, and got to work on a library for SVMs.
(Jan 18 '11 at 12:31)
Oliver Mitevski
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Edinburgh has a great MSc program, and I would also recommend it for a PhD. |
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I guess that for a MSc is ok pretty much in any place, for a PhD I would recomend Cambridge or Imperial College of London (they each have a number of great laboratories) In England, there is also an MSc programme in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at UCL: http://www.csml.ucl.ac.uk/courses/msc_csml/
(Feb 17 '11 at 09:16)
zeno
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Helsinki is cool ;) Could you be more specific, please? Could you provide a link or some reference?
(Jan 24 '11 at 09:03)
Lucian Sasu
Scandinavian universities are probably the best in europe (except UK). I have been at TKK but I was not studying machine learning there, the university was really cool. Now they have this: http://information.tkk.fi/en/prospective_students/masters/macadamia/
(Jan 24 '11 at 10:46)
Giovanni
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You should also consider ETH Zurich, they have strong groups in both machine learning and vision (and ETHZ is a very respected institution worldwide). |
