Can anyone suggest me some good universities for Machine Learning?

[raihan_masud]

Can anyone suggest me some good universities for Machine Learning?(MS+PhD)

Raihan

[CalmLogic]

Besides CMU, Stanford, and MIT, Georgia Tech's Intelligent Systems PhD program comes to mind.

A couple related Georgia Tech lab groups:
Georgia Institute of Technology :: News Room :: Robotics Program Energized by New RIM@ Georgia Tech
Laboratory for Interactive Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech

This year, Oregon State University sponsored a conference on machine learning:
ICML 2007 - The 24th Annual International Conference on Machine Learning

However, I can't find anything too impressive regarding such research at Oregon State except:
ICML 2006 Workshop on Machine Learning Algorithms for Surveillance and Event Detection
and, less impressively:
Main Page - AI Colloquium
PhpWiki - mlrg

Like Georgia Tech, UF continues to participate in the DARPA grand challenge:
Team CIMAR
Machine Intelligence Lab

You may get some more ideas here:

DARPA Grand Challenge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (list of some previous participants)
DARPA Grand Challenge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (list of upcoming participants)
2007 International Conference on Machine Learning (list includes committee members from top universities)

Some threads related to AI and machine learning:

http://www.urch.com/forums/computer-...-programs.html ([Ph.D] Data Mining/AI/Machine Learning Programs)
http://www.urch.com/forums/graduate-...-vs-umass.html (CS Ph.D. in AI: UMich vs UMass?)
http://www.urch.com/forums/computer-...versities.html (Evaluate my profile and suggest some universities)
http://www.urch.com/forums/computer-...due-ms-cs.html (GaTech or Purdue? (MS CS))

[CalmLogic]

Certainly, CMU is the best place to be for machine learning:
Prospective Ph.D. Students

After CMU, I don't know who would be next. MIT & UT at Austin come to mind.

However, there are specialties in machine learning like NLP and computer vision, so that may be another consideration.

Also, I've been watching some videos on machine learning and some of the presenters are from CMU (no surprise), but I also saw one presenter from the University of Utah and another one from UCSD:

Utah:
UUSC Machine Learning Research Group
Ellen Riloff's NLP students
U of U School of Computing - Alumni

UCSD:
CoSMaL - Computational Statistics and Machine Learning

Some more links:

Research Areas :: Princeton Computer Science (Princeton)
Computer & Information Science / Research Overview (UPenn)
About | Research | CSE Department at the OSU (Ohio State)

• Machine Learning Research Group - University of Texas at Austin
• Explanation-Based Learning Group - University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
• Center for Automated Learning and Discovery - Carnegie Mellon University
• World Wide Knowledge Base (WebKB) project - Carnegie Mellon University
• Machine Learning Research Group - University of Califorina at Irvine
• Machine Learning Research Group - University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Machine Learning Research Group -- Rutgers University
• Natural Language Processing Lab - Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University

UUSC Machine Learning Research Group

Center for Computational Learning Systems (Columbia)
GMU Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory
Machine Learning Laboratory (UMass)

Iowa State:
Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory
CILD home

Open Directory - Computers: Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning: Research Groups

editorial-board (lists universities)