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Pieter de Villiers
Pieter de Villiers is an associate professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and a PhD in 2008 at the University of Cambridge, UK, in statistical signal processing (particle filtering). From 2010 until 2018 he was performing research into data fusion at the Radar and Electronic Warfare competency at the CSIR. His research interests include data fusion, target tracking, Bayesian inference, nonlinear filtering, pattern recognition, graphical models and machine learning. Pieter was general co-chair for the 2020 23rd International Conference on Information Fusion which was held as a virtual conference. He is a member of the official International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF) Evaluation Techniques for Uncertainty Representation and Reasoning Working Group (ETURWG) and is also on the Board of Directors of ISIF.
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Articles by Pieter de Villiers
The loss optimization of loan recovery decision times using forecast cashflows
In this paper, a theoretical method is empirically illustrated in finding the best time to forsake a loan such that the overall credit loss is minimized.