Dist. D. Learning w/ Keras&TensorFlow on Spark&Mitig. bias in speech emotion rec

Agenda:
6:30pm - 7:00pm - ODSC Intro, Food & Refreshments.
7:00pm - 7:40pm - Speaker One and Q&A
7:40 - 8:20 - Speaker Two and Q&A
8:20 - 8:40 - Networking

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Speaker One: Dr. John Kane - Distinguished Scientist at Cogito
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-kane-93553454/

Topic:
Mitigating gender-bias in speech emotion recognition

Bio:
Dr. John Kane is Distinguished Scientist in the area of machine learning at Cogito and has nearly a decade of expertise in speech science and technology. At Cogito he leads the research and development of machine learning algorithms to enable real-time processing of audio, speech and other behavioral signals which powers applications in healthcare and in the call centre. John is an active member of the speech research community, contributing as a reviewer for leading journals and conferences in the space and as a maintainer of open source speech processing tools.

Abstract:
Machine learning can unintentionally encode and amplify negative bias and stereotypes present in humans, be they conscious or unconscious. This has led to high-profile cases where machine learning systems have been found to exhibit bias towards gender, race, and ethnicity, among other demographic categories. Negative bias can be encoded in these algorithms based on: the representation of different population categories in the model training data; bias arising from manual human labeling of these data; as well as modeling types and optimization approaches used. In this talk I will discuss the problem of negative bias in machine learning generally and also specifically the case of gender bias in the applied area of emotion recognition from speech. I will
demonstrate that lower recall for emotional activation in female speech samples can be attenuated by applying an adversarial de-biasing training technique.

Speaker Two: Guglielmo Iozzia, Associate Director, Business Tech Analysis - IT and Analytics at MSD
https://ie.linkedin.com/in/giozzia

Topic:
Distributed Deep Learning with Keras and TensorFlow on Apache Spark

Bio:
Guglielmo Iozzia is Associate Director, Business Tech Analysis - IT and Analytics at MSD in Dublin. His fields of expertise are Big Data, Analytics and Machine Learning. He switched his career path towards those fields while working at IBM. Starting from 2018 Guglielmo is frequent speaker at international events and as well he is the author of the book 'Hands-on Deep Learning on Apache Spark

Abstract:
DeepLearning4J is an Open Source distributed framework for Deep Learning on the JVM. It allows importing Python (Keras and TensorFlow) models in order to train them in a distributed fashion on Apache Spark. The talk would walk through details about the full process.

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