Thames Valley Artificial Intelligence meetup 3

Our third Thames Valley AI meetup, 1800 - 2030, at a larger town centre Venue. Our thanks to Austin Fraser providing a venue and sponsoring this meetup at Thames Tower, Station Road, Reading RG1 1LX. Put the date in your diary. Beer and Pizza + networking at the start. A corporate, an SME, and an academic/researcher will share their experience and learnings from deploying/using AI. Then more networking to finish.

A tip from a member - Hills Meadow Car Park just across the river is free after 6pm, and not too far. So should be time to get to us before presentations kick off at 1830.

I am happy to confirm that we have four speakers;

James Cruickshank from IBM will be delivering -

What will Sherlock do now? - intro video - http://bit.ly/2lP0nlA
Join us as we search for Professor Moriarty across Europe using the latest AI vision-based technology.

Alexis Smith the CEO of IMGeospatial - A dyslexic dropouts practical steps for working with bias in AI datasets - Alexis intro video - http://bit.ly/2lQVybm

Dr Varun Ojha, Lecturer in Computer Science - Human Perception of the Urban Environment - Data Science Approach - intro video - http://bit.ly/2kIaYi3

As a part of my research with a team at the ETH Zurich, we investigated a detailed answer to the question "Do the dynamics of the city environment influence us and how"? We adopted Machine Learning and Data Mining approaches for investigating such relationship between the dynamics of the city environment and the human perception. A complex and messy dataset was analyzed and resolved for this purpose. The machine learning analysis and its results will focus on answering the following questions: (i) What are the factors that need to be accounted for from the city environment? (ii) How can we collect and process messy and complex datasets? (ii) Can we predict the citizen's perception based on a particular environmental condition? (iv) Are we able to infer a detailed relationship between a citizen's perception and the city environment? (v) What are the significant factors that influence a citizen's perception? (vi) Does the citizen exhibit positive or negative emotion towards a certain environment?

Download: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025518307734?via%3Dihub

Biography - Varun Ojha is Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Reading. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He obtained his PhD as a Marie-Curie Research Fellow in Computer Science, Communication Technology, and Applied Mathematics from the Technical University of Ostrava, The Czech Republic. He worked in interdisciplinary research projects on machine learning and computation intelligence. He worked in a research project for Intelligent Electronic nose development under the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India at the Visavariti University and Indian Institute of Science Engineering and Technology, Shibpur. Dr Ojha's research interests are in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science and topics like Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, Fuzzy Inference Systems, Evolutionary Computation.

Keshav Sankla, Solutions4Health - Utilising AI to achieve health outcomes at scale. Intro video - http://bit.ly/2mdBnEN

Kesh will be talking about the process, experience, and key challenges that are relevant for an SME when trying to apply artificial intelligence in healthcare. The focus will be on how applied AI can generate solutions that address challenges in access, quality, and cost; with the strategic, technical, organisational, and financial challenges being explored.