Detecting Very Rare but High Value Events

Prresented by Richard Bijjani, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder at Quanttus.

When machine learning scientists are confronted with the task of detecting low probability high value events, they find textbook approaches extremely inadequate.

Terrorism and some deadly diseases could be seen as very rare events with disastrous effects. We will discuss some techniques drawn from the security as well as the health care industries that could enable the early detection of ‘yet unseen’ deadly threats.