Iqra Shahzad on Self Organising Maps
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Our Presenter:
Iqra Shahzad - Graduated as an Electrical Engineer from the University of Queensland. In her final year became interested in Machine Learning and researched it for a University Project. At the same time, managed to do an internship at Mawson Ventures, which was her step into Industry. Further on, she worked at Popgun ( a machine learning startup) , exploring Generative models for Music Generation. Currently work's as a Machine Learning Consultant for Max-Kelsen, and presents machine learning solutions to a variety of clients for their problem space. She is interested in many areas of Machine Learning including Neural Machine Translation, Graphical Models, and Reinforcement Learning and also explores them in her spare time.
Linked in profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/iqra-shahzad-3a1111b3/
The Presentation:
- What is a Self Organizing Map? 2. Kohonen Networks theory
- Implementation in Python
- Real World Applications
Our Sponsor this month:
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Location and Time:
Our event space is sponsored by Thoughtworks:
We're a software consultancy and community of passionate, purpose-led individuals. We think disruptively to deliver technology to address our clients' toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionise the IT industry and create positive social change.
The event is at the Thoughtworks offices, level 19, 127 Creek Street, with official kick-off at 6:00 pm.