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Fields-CQAM Public Lectures: Ali Ghodsi, University of Waterloo
What is missing from common practice in machine learning?
AI, and machine learning in particular, is enjoying its golden age. Machine learning has changed the face of the world over the past two decades but we are still a long way from achieving a general artificial intelligence. In this talk, I will discuss a couple of elements that I believe are missing from common practice in machine learning, including incorporating causality and creating a new framework for unsupervised learning.
Biography
Ali Ghodsi is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. His research involves statistical machine-learning methods. Ghodsi’s research spans a variety of areas in computational statistics. He studies theoretical frameworks and develops new machine learning algorithms for analyzing large-scale data sets, with applications to bioinformatics, data mining, pattern recognition, robotics, computer vision, and sequential decision making.
DATE:
THURSDAY, JUNE 20TH, 2019.
PRESENTATION
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
NETWORKING
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
LOCATION
HEALTH SCIENCE BUILDING, RM. 1301 (LOCATED ON THE GROUND FLOOR), CARLETON UNIVERSITY.
FREE ADMISSION FOR THIS PUBLIC LECTURE.
PLEASE REGISTERÂ HERE.
| 8:30 am – 9:00 am | Registration | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am – 9:15 am | Opening Remarks | Rafik Goubran | Carleton University |
| 9:15 am – 10:00 am | Keynote Presentation:
Data Mining and Machine Learning for Authorship and Malware Analyses |
Benjamin C. M. Fung Biography |
McGill University |
| 10:00 am – 10:30 am | Break | ||
| 10:30 am – 11:45 am | Cybersecurity: Top 5 class imbalance ML challenges and data sets Abstract |
Stephan Jou Biography |
Interset |
| Class Imbalance in Fraud Detection Abstract |
Robin Grosset Biography |
MindBridge Analytics Inc. | |
| Handling class imbalance in natural language processing Abstract |
Isuru Gunasekara Biography |
IMRSV Data Labs | |
| 11:45 am – 12:45 pm | Lunch | ||
| 12:30 pm – 2:10 pm | Adaptive learning with class imbalanced streams Abstract |
Herna L. Viktor Biography |
University of Ottawa |
| Radar-based fall monitoring using deep learning Abstract |
Hamidreza Sadreazami Biography |
McGill University | |
| Privacy-preserving data augmentation in medical text analysis Abstract |
Isar Nejadgholi Biography |
National Research Council | |
| Failure modelling of a propulsion subsystem: unsupervised and semi-supervised approaches to anomaly detection Abstract |
Julio J. Valdés Biography |
National Research Council | |
| 2:10 pm – 2:25 pm | Break | ||
| 2:25 pm – 3:40 pm | TBD | Reddy Nellipudi | DB Schenker |
| AuditMap.ai: Hierarchical Sentence Classification in Unstructured Audit Reports Abstract |
Daniel Shapiro Biography |
Lemay.ai | |
| Deep Learning techniques for unsupervised anomaly detection Abstract |
Dušan Sovilj Biography |
RANK Software Inc. | |
| 3:40 pm – 3:50 pm | Closing Remarks |
Venue: Online
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-brief-introduction-to-ieeextreme-and-wie-hack613-tickets-119203981317
Event Contact Name Ragunath Anbarasu
Event Contact Email: https://wie.ieeeottawa.ca/contact-us/
IEEEXtreme is a worldwide Annual Hackathon, in which teams of IEEE student members participate against each other in a span of 24 hours to solve a set of programming problems. This year IEEEXtreme 14.0 is being held on October 24th. Ragunath Anbarasu, the web master and an active volunteer of IEEE WIE Ottawa has been selected as the Ambassador and Section Lead for the Ottawa region. In this session, he will walk through the IEEEXtreme competition and WIE HACK613, a mock hackathon IEEE WIE Ottawa is organizing as a practice for IEEEXtreme. Register Now! And learn more about the event!
Bio: Ragunath Anbarasu is currently doing his Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering with Specialization in Data Science at Carleton University. He as been the Web Master of IEEE WIE Ottawa for almost a year and is extremely active in volunteering activities related to IEEE. He has been coordinating with the organizers in hosting this years IEEEXtreme Programming Competition in their respective student branches and supporting Non-IEEE Student Branch Members to get exposure to the Hackathon. He will be extending his help to students looking for support and guidance with information related to IEEEXtreme and connect them to a professional member.
