First Fall Meetup. Machine Learning in Biochemistry.

Hey All! Time to announce the meetup after the long Montreal summer!

Talks:

• Oleksandr Kazakov. Big Data Developer at Wajam will speak on:

Machine Learning for Alzheimer Disease Prediction.

Application of various machine learning techniques such as Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines to predict Alzheimer disease on different stages of its progression from Raman spectroscopic data of blood samples.

Flash Talks:

• Simon Oullette (Nabla Analytics (http://nabla.ca/)) will do a follow up on a winning approach in a recent hackaton (https://www.meetup.com/PTML-MTL/events/233600878/)!

• Min Liang(MS student at McGill) "fMRI data analysis with latent space model"

At the moment we are also looking for the 4-5 flash talks. If you have some topic regarding your research/project/start up that you want to present in 5 minutes please message us!

Adviso (http://www.adviso.ca/en/) is our amazing sponsor for the place, food, and drinks this time!

Adviso is a Digital Strategy and Consulting agency made of +60 expert consultants. Since 2002, Adviso has been helping companies from Quebec and beyond to launch and maintain high-performing digital initiatives using a rigorous methodology, a creative approach and an implacable culture of performance and results.

Their Media Innovation & Data Science team, led by Roger Kamena, is one of the few pioneer exploring cutting-edge techniques like machine learning and leveraging technological creativity to develop new ways of pushing digital marketing industry to the next level.

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