Associate Professor
Piero Giovanni Luca Porta-Mana
Field of work
If you're a student and have questions or curiosities about physics, maths, or probability theory; or if you're interested in cutting-edge methods in these disciplines, and maybe work on some project on them – then let's have a chat! Drop me a line.
Please see https://portamana.org for research areas, CV, publications, teaching material.
This autumn 2023 I teach the new MSc course
ADA511: Data Science and data-driven engineering
Lecture notes (still a draft) at https://pglpm.github.io/ADA511/
Research interests and activities in:
- general relativity
- continuum mechanics & thermodynamics
- quantum theory
- Bayesian probability theory, decision theory, machine learning
- statistical mechanics
- differential geometry (especially visual approaches to it)
Please see https://portamana.org for research areas, CV, publications, teaching material.
Publications
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Does the evaluation stand up to evaluation? A first-principle approach to the evaluation of classifiers
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Don't guess what's true: choose what's optimal. A probability transducer for machine-learning classifiers
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Personalized prognosis & treatment using Ledley-Jaynes machines: An example study on conversion from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease
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Brain Tumor Segmentation from Multiparametric MRI Using a Multi-encoder U-Net Architecture
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Dimensional analysis in relativity and in differential geometry (updated)