NVIDIA, HPE, and Mark III Systems would like to host an AI/Machine Learning Education Series for the University of Houston and its greater community in 2023. This bi-weekly education series is 100% virtual and will include both tutorials and virtual "rapid labs" for attendees delivered via Jupyter Notebook. There will be a series of sessions that will feature industry experts in Machine Learning, who will dive into current trends around AI/ML. We hope you can join us!
AI/ML Education Series:
Replays (Past Sessions):
Thursday, May 18th (11am-12pm CT)
Introduction to Machine Learning and AI: What is it and why we do we need it?
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. Specifically the use case will cover using quantitative data to predict benign and malignant tumors, based on a large dataset.
Thursday, Jun 15th (11am-12pm CT)
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.
Wednesday, Jul 12th (11am-12pm CT)
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. The lab use case that we'll look at focuses around public health and data pulled from various APIs.
Thursday, Jul 20th (11am-12pm CT)
Introduction to Computer Vision
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.
Thursday, Sept 14th (11am-12pm CT)
Getting Started with Containers and AI
Speaker: DevOps/MLOps, 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.
Thursday, Oct 5th (11am-12pm CT)
Introduction to Large Language Models
Speaker: Data Scientist, Mark III
In this session, we'll overview the landscape around LLMs and Generative AI and look into a few of the most popular frameworks for training and using LLM models, including Mosaic MPT, Falcon, and Nemo. This session will also include a Jupyter Notebook lab that will take attendees through the process of training a simple LLM model.