How deep is your learning?

Machine learning is quite the buzz words these days. In this talk, I’ll give an overview of machine learning and how it can be used. I’ll also talk about two applications of machine learning that I have worked on. First, I’ll describe how social media data can be used to understand urban cities and predict whether a business will survive or fail. Second, I’ll describe work I did at the United Nations using mobile phone data to model internal migration trends in Vanuatu.

Oliver will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to transform healthcare through neural engineering and how it can be integrated into the human body, giving a glimpse of the work BIOS has been doing to advance research and expand real world applications in this field. He will illustrate the solutions BIOS and others in the field are creating and will set the scene to what we can expect to see in the coming years.

Making sense of the gigantic, complex, data-sets generated by modern biology experiments is beyond human capabilities. To uncover the secrets of living systems buried in the data, computers and smart algorithms are needed. The rise of data science and machine learning is accelerating the pace of discovery and ultimately bringing new treatments for disease closer, faster. Dr. Shamith Samarajiwa, MRC Cancer Unit, will discuss how his lab uses data science to understand genes and genomes and the impact of artificial intelligence breakthroughs in his field of cancer biology.

As part of the Creative Reactions project, these artists will be presenting their artwork inspired by the research of speakers in this talk series. The artwork will also be on display at our Creative Reactions Exhibition at St Barnabas Church, 24 - 25 May.