Yesterday, the Minister of Education Morten Østergaard awarded PhD student Trine Julie Abrahamsen an EliteForsk-travel grant of 300.000 DKK.
At a ceremony at Glyptoteket Thursday February 8, the Minister of Education Morten Østergaard awarded 17 PhD students with an EliteForsk-travel grant of 300.000 DKK. PhD student at the Section for Cognitive Systems, DTU Informatics, Trine Julie Abrahamsen was one of the talented PhD students to receive the grant. At DTU, Trine is working on her PhD project "Kernel Methods for machine learning with life science applications," and her supervisors are Professor Lars Kai Hansen and Associate Professor Ole Winther.
Trine will use the travel grant for a ½ year visit to University of California in Berkeley, USA. She sees this as a unique possibility to develop her scientific competences, and to experience a different research environment.
About Trine's research in 2011, she found a systematic method to reduce overfitting problems in non-linear manifold. The method is publiched in a leading machine learning journal.
(T.J. Abrahamsen and L.K. Hansen. A Cure for Variance Inflation in High Dimensional Kernel Principal Component Analysis. Journal of Machine Learning Research 12:2027-2044 (2011).)
The EliteForsk-travel grant is awarded to talented PhD students at Danish institutions.
Link to interview with Trine (in Danish)
List of receivers of the grant (in Danish)
The grant receivers, HRH Prince Joachim and the Minister of Education Morten Østergaard. Trine Julie Abrahamsen is the 3rd from the right, front row.
Photo: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education, www.eliteforsk.dk