Dave Zachariah
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Information Technology; Division of Systems and Control
- E-mail:
- dave.zachariah@it.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Hus 10, Regementsvägen 10
- Postal address:
- Box 337
751 05 UPPSALA
- Academic merits:
- Docent
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Associate professor at the division of Systems and Control and coordinator of the Machine Learning Arena. Research interests include: statistical machine learning & signal processing; decision theory & causal inference; localization & sensor fusion.
Data-Driven Decisions and Control Group
Paper preprints available on arXiv
Reproducible research accessible on github

Publications
Recent publications
Error Reduction in Leukemia Machine Learning Classification With Conformal Prediction
Part of JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, 2025
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Adaptive Robust Learning using Latent Bernoulli Variables
Part of Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, p. 23105-23122, 2024
Experimental Characterization of a Robust Localization Method Based on UWB Ranging
Part of 2024 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, I2MTC 2024, p. 1-5, 2024
Part of Neurocritical Care, 2024
- DOI for Machine Learning Based Prediction of Imminent ICP Insults During Neurocritical Care of Traumatic Brain Injury
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Regularization properties of adversarially-trained linear regression
Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023), p. 23658-23670, 2023
All publications
Articles in journal
Error Reduction in Leukemia Machine Learning Classification With Conformal Prediction
Part of JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, 2025
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Part of Neurocritical Care, 2024
- DOI for Machine Learning Based Prediction of Imminent ICP Insults During Neurocritical Care of Traumatic Brain Injury
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Diagnostic Tool for Out-of-Sample Model Evaluation
Part of Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2023
Off-Policy Evaluation with Out-of-Sample Guarantees
Part of Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2023
Online Learning for Prediction via Covariance Fitting: Computation, Performance and Robustness
Part of Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2023
Part of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2023
Analysis of the Minimum-Norm Least-Squares Estimator and Its Double-Descent Behavior [Lecture Notes]
Part of IEEE signal processing magazine (Print), p. 39-75, 2023
Regularized Linear Regression via Covariance Fitting
Part of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, p. 1175-1183, 2023
A shift from the problematic of "transformation"
Part of WORLD REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, p. 463-471, 2022
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Robust localization in wireless networks from corrupted signals
Part of EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2021
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Scalable Belief Updating for Urban Air Quality Modeling and Prediction
Part of ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science, p. 1-19, 2021
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Robust Risk Minimization for Statistical Learning From Corrupted Data
Part of IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, p. 287-294, 2020
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Robust Prediction When Features are Missing
Part of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, p. 720-724, 2020
Classical labor values: properties of economic reproduction
Part of World Review of Political Economy, p. 388-414, 2020
Data Consistency Approach to Model Validation
Part of IEEE Access, p. 59788-59796, 2019
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Effect Inference From Two-Group Data With Sampling Bias
Part of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, p. 1103-1106, 2019
Learning sparse graphs for prediction of multivariate data processes
Part of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, p. 495-499, 2019
Identification of cascade water tanks using a PWARX model
Part of Mechanical systems and signal processing, p. 40-48, 2018
Recursive nonlinear-system identification using latent variables
Part of Automatica, p. 343-351, 2018
Part of IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, p. 725-734, 2018
Comments on “Enhanced PUMA for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation and Its Performance Analysis”
Part of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, p. 6113-6114, 2017
Scalable and Passive Wireless Network Clock Synchronization in LOS Environments
Part of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, p. 3536-3546, 2017
A multicomponent T2 relaxometry algorithm for myelin water imaging of the brain
Part of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, p. 390-402, 2016
Recursive identification method for piecewise ARX models: A sparse estimation approach
Part of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, p. 5082-5093, 2016
Online hyperparameter-free sparse estimation method
Part of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, p. 3348-3359, 2015
Cramér–Rao bound analog of Bayes' rule
Part of IEEE signal processing magazine (Print), p. 164-168, 2015
Joint ranging and clock parameter estimation by wireless round trip time measurements
Part of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, p. 2379-2390, 2015
Estimation for the linear model with uncertain covariance matrices
Part of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, p. 1525-1535, 2014
Schedule-based sequential localization in asynchronous wireless networks
Part of EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2014
Cooperative localization by dual foot-mounted inertial sensors and inter-agent ranging
Part of EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2013
Articles, review/survey
Weighted SPICE: A unifying approach for hyperparameter-free sparse estimation
Part of Digital signal processing (Print), p. 1-12, 2014
Conference papers
Adaptive Robust Learning using Latent Bernoulli Variables
Part of Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, p. 23105-23122, 2024
Experimental Characterization of a Robust Localization Method Based on UWB Ranging
Part of 2024 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, I2MTC 2024, p. 1-5, 2024
Regularization properties of adversarially-trained linear regression
Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023), p. 23658-23670, 2023
Learning Pareto-Efficient Decisions with Confidence
Part of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, p. 9969-9981, 2022
Inference of Causal Effects when Control Variables are Unknown
Part of Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, PMLR, p. 1300-1309, 2021
Part of ASME Turbo Expo 2021, 2021
Learning Robust Decision Policies from Observational Data
Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33 (NeurIPS 2020), 2020
Approximate Gaussian Process Regression and Performance Analysis Using Composite Likelihood
Part of 30th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP 2020, Espoo, Finland, September 21-24, 2020, p. 1-6, 2020
A latent variable approach to heat load prediction in thermal grids
Part of 2020 European Control Conference (ECC), p. 344-349, 2020
Flexible Models for Smart Maintenance
Part of 2019 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY (ICIT), p. 1772-1777, 2019
Calibration tests in multi-class classification: A unifying framework
Part of ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 32 (NIPS 2019), 2019
Inferring Heterogeneous Causal Effects in Presence of Spatial Confounding
Part of Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning, p. 4942-4950, 2019
Prediction of Spatial Point Processes: Regularized Method with Out-of-Sample Guarantees
Part of ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 32 (NIPS 2019), 2019
Learning localized spatio-temporal models from streaming data
Part of Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning, p. 3927-3935, 2018
Regularized parametric system identification: a decision-theoretic formulation
Part of 2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC), p. 1895-1900, 2018
Identification of nonlinear feedback mechanisms operating in closed loop using inertial sensors
p. 473-478, 2018
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How consistent is my model with the data?: Information-theoretic model check
p. 407-412, 2018
Model-robust counterfactual prediction method
Part of ICML Workshop on Machine Learning for Causal Inference, Counterfactual Prediction, and Autonomous Action, 2018
Prediction Performance After Learning in Gaussian Process Regression
Part of Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, p. 1264-1272, 2017
Recursive nonlinear system identification using latent variables
Part of 25th European Research Network System Identification Workshop, 2016
Online prediction of spatial fields for radio-frequency communication
Part of Proc. 24th European Signal Processing Conference, p. 1252-1256, 2016
Prediction performance after learning in Gaussian process regression
Part of 25th European Research Network System Identification Workshop, 2016
Part of Proc. 22nd European Signal Processing Conference, 2014
Minimum sidelobe beampattern design for MIMO radar systems: A robust approach
Part of Proc. 39th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, p. 5312-5316, 2014
Enhanced Capon beamformer using regularized covariance matching
Part of Proc. 5th International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, p. 97-100, 2013
Manuscripts (preprints)
Composite Gaussian Processes: Scalable Computation and Performance Analysis
Scalable Belief Updating forUrban Air Quality Modeling and Prediction
Semi-Supervised Learning of Classierswhen Labels are Missing at Random
CalibrationAnalysis.jl: Calibration analysis of probabilistic models in Julia
Certified Inventory Control of Critical Resources