NVIDIA and Mark III would like to host an AI/Machine Learning Educational Series for Oregon State University and its greater community in Fall 2023.  These sessions would be 100% virtual and will feature industry experts in Machine Learning, who will dive into current trends around AI/ML via tutorials and hands-on rapid labs designed around practical AI education, delivered remotely via Jupyter Notebooks.  We hope you can join us! 

AI/ML Education Series:

Replays (Past Sessions):

Tuesday, Oct 17th (11am-12pm PT)

Intro to Machine Learning and AI:  The Basics, A Tutorial, and Lab

Speaker: Data Scientist, Mark III

In this session, we’ll cover the basics around what Machine Learning is, look at the different ML techniques and methods, examine what a typical ML project lifecycle looks like, and discuss some of the most commonly used example algorithms.

This session will also include a 20-minute rapid mini-workshop via Jupyter Notebook where we'll use an example dataset from Kaggle and take it through the steps of training and evaluating a model to make predictions using ML.  Examples of labs include classifying tumors as malignant or benign using ML, predictive maintenance (anomaly detection), and pricing prediction.

 

Tuesday, Oct 24th (11am-12pm PT)

Intro to Deep Learning: An Introduction to Neural Networks

Speaker: Data Scientist, Mark III

In this session, we'll cover the basics around what Deep Learning is, look at how it fits within the AI/ML universe, dive into neural networks (including CNNs, LSTMs, and GANs), and walk through a typical Deep Learning project lifecycle.  

We'll cap the session with a 20-minute rapid mini-workshop via Jupyter Notebook where we'll use an example dataset (CIFAR-10) to train and evaluate a neural network model using Keras.

 

Tuesday, Oct 31st (11am-12pm PT) 

Introduction to Datasets

Speaker: Data Scientist, Mark III

In this session, we'll cover what datasets for Machine Learning and Deep Learning projects look like and how to find them.

This will include highlighting some of the most popular datasets in the community today as well as good sources to download these datasets from.

Some brief tips and tricks for cleaning up datasets will be covered and we'll conclude the session with a mini-workshop and lab showing how to import and interact with datasets in a Jupyter Notebook for a public health use case.

 

Tuesday, Nov 7th (11am-12pm PT) 

Intro to Computer Vision and Image Analytics

Speaker: Data Scientist, Mark III

In this session, we'll cover the basics around what computer vision is, how it works (classification, object detection, segmentation), some of the popular frameworks and models used today, and what some of the practical applications might be in research and industry.  We'll also walk through what a typical Computer Vision project lifecycle might look like.

We'll cap the session with a 20-minute rapid mini-workshop via Jupyter Notebook where we'll use code examples to build a CNN image classifier as well as using pretrained model libraries for object detection and image segmentation.

 

Tuesday, Nov 14th (11am-12pm PT) 

Getting Started with Containers and AI

Speakers: Architects, NVIDIA, Mark III

This session will cover the ML/DL ecosystem of container-powered technologies and the best ways to get started and accelerate your journey in building, training, deploying, and scaling your models.  We'll touch on NVIDIA NGC, Docker, Kubernetes, Singularity, and other ways to get started and get going quickly.