New mathematics for informatics

Principal Investigator: 
Dr Hamse Mussa
One of the major challenging tasks in science has been developing methods with which we can obtain useful information about the physical world on the basis of inferences drawn from observations/measurements. These methods (commonly known as observational or inverse models) would allow us to make useful predictions of the probable outcomes in complicated and realistic situations, such as predicting the properties/evolution of physical, chemical, and biological systems, to name but few – without knowing their underlying physical principles.
 In other words, the task is finding the mathematical representations (models) of physical phenomena purely from introspection or observations (or both). And this is the main aim of this project.

There are many problems in Molecular Informatics that require novel solutions to the underlying algorithms to increase reliability and speed. Dr Hamse Mussa is working on new methods for machine learning, factor analysis and data analysis focussing on improving or creating new approaches by integrating informatics and mathematics.

Summary
Members: 
Dr Hamse Mussa
Partners & Collaborators: 
UCC
Partners & Collaborators: 
Unilever