Machine Learning in Games: Talk by Amazon AWS Architect

Speaker: Pratap Ramamurthy

Let's have a competitive game of super smash bros before the talk starts!

Talk Description: How is AI able to beat champions of chess and Go? We will also showcase the ML framework: the Markov decision process that is the core of these AI systems. In this talk, we will also see how to create your own AI agent, that will be able to beat you.

Bio: Pratap Ramamurthy is a Partner Solutions Architect. He works with AWS partners, helping them build their ML solutions on top of AWS. He works with several partners that specialize in machine learning and AI based solutions. Prior to AWS, he was a researcher when he worked on creating quantum dot lasers, created test tools for web servers and optimized WiFi using game theory. Currently, he focuses on Machine Learning especially Natural Language Processing.

6:00-6:30pm Networking
6:30-7:15pm Game Demos from Community
7:15-7:45pm Talk from Amazon AWS
7:45-8:00pm Networking

Bring your laptops and game demos to show off! Email schuetz@pubnub.com if you want to show off your demo to the audience.