Day 2 :
Keynote Forum
Erwin E Sniedzins
Mount Knowledge Inc., Canada
Keynote: Machine learning for data acquisition in dynamic real-time
Time : 09:00 - 09:40
Biography:
Prof. Erwin Sniedzins has patented the Knowledge Generator™ (KG); a Machine Learning, “MicroSelf-Reinforcement Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Personalize ‘Gamification’ of ANY digitized textual content application in DYNAMIC real-time. The KG technology enables people to turn Data into Knowledge (DiK) 32% better and easier with more confidence and fun. No teacher or course designer is required. Erwin is the President of Mount Knowledge Inc. The company is a global leader in ML, AI, neural networks, automatic gamification of any textual data and reinforcement learning. Erwin has authored and published 12 books, Keynote speaker, Professor at Hebei University and Mt. Everest expedition leader.
Abstract:
Big Data is inundating educators, students, employers and employees causing a lot of stress, frustration and lack of confidence in data acquisition. More than 3.8 billion people are seeking relief from 3.4 exabytes of daily data bombardment. Genetic Algorithm Neural Networks (GANN) and machine learning provides a bridge and filtration solution between exabytes of data and megabytes of personalized data for knowledge acquisition by using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and automatic gamification in dynamic real-time. AI and ML is transforming humanity’s cerebral evolution as a replacement of repetitive habitual motions and thoughts. In its evolutionary process humans developed their primary biological interfaces to interpret the data that they were receiving through their five senses- seeing, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting. In recent years GANN and NLP have entered to provide, Data into Knowledge (DiK) solutions. Research with GANN and NLP has enabled tools to be developed that selectively filters big data and combine this data into microself-reinforcement learning and personalized gamification of any DiK in dynamic real-time. The combination of GA, NLP, MSRL and dynamic gamification has enabled people to experience relieve in their quest to turn DiK 32% better, faster and easier and with more confidence over traditional learning methods.
Keynote Forum
Samir El-Masri
Professor of Data Analytics, UAE
Keynote: Digital Transformation and the convergence of new emerging digital technologies
Time : 09:40 - 10:20
Biography:
Samir El Masri has completed his Electronic Engineering’s degree from the Lebanese University, his Master’s degree and Ph.D. from Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute, France. He has worked at Hokkaido University, Japan as a Researcher and Senior Project Manager and he was Assistant/Associate Professor at the University of Western Sydney and University of Sydney, Australia. He has also worked in the IT industry as a Senior Project/Program Manager in leading IT consulting companies in Sydney Australia. He has worked on large eHealth projects with several grants from KACST in Saudi Arabia where he has strong collaborations with local and international healthcare organizations. His main interest is in education, development and research activities. Moreover, he has more than 100 published research papers in international journals, books, and conferences.
Abstract:
Digital transformation is a journey which stems from strong beliefs in the digital economy by senior management supported by a digital transformation strategy. Strategy is much more difficult to deploy than develop and it may only be achieved when the transformation is led by CEOs reinforced by mature capabilities. Unfortunately, most digital transformation initiatives have failed in the past and many more will fail in the future. These failures have been mainly due to organizations undertaking digital change instead of digital transformation in addition to the lack of capabilities and non-readiness of the company to manage this transformation. New digital emerging technologies remain the backbone and the enabler of any digital transformation activities. The digitization of operations, workforce, marketing and new digital business models will be realized by the convergence of all new emerging digital technologies through new products/services, price, customer experience and platform values. In this talk, data science, machine learning, analytics, big data, IOT and their interrelationships will be demonstrated. Examples of how digital initiatives could help the industry by improving efficiency, avoiding trips, reducing unplanned downtime and transforming from time-based to condition-based maintenance will also be illustrated.
Keynote Forum
Mr. Miguel Ãngel MartÃnez
Cádiz University, Spain
Keynote: Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGANs) and The Counterfeiter Game
Time : 11:10 - 11:25
Biography:
Miguel Ángel Martínez completed his Computer Science Degree at the age of 23 years from Cadiz University. He is an Artificial Intelligence Mentor at Udacity, and the founder of Dirigendo Ltd., a recently launched startup which combines machine learning and location-based services.
Abstract:
Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks are a class of unsupervised machine learning algorithm, implemented by a system of two neural networks contesting with each other in a zero-sum game framework.
First introduced by Ian Goodfellow et al. in 2014, GANs are a new framework for estimating models via an adversarial process, in which two models are trained simultaneously: a generative model G that captures the data distribution, and a discriminative model D that estimates the probability that a sample came from the training data rather than G. The training procedure for G is to maximize the probability of D making a mistake.
The most important benefit of GANs is their ability to learn deep representations without extensively annotated training data. Since their introduction, they have been proven to be useful in a variety of applications, including image synthesis, semantic image editing, style transfer, image super-resolution and classification.
Keynote Forum
Sylvester Juwe
British Gas, United Kingdom
Keynote: Machine learning: An enabler of business strategy and innovation
Time : 10:45 - 11:25
Biography:
Sylvester Juwe is a highly experienced and qualified Artificial Intelligence Lead, currently a Senior Data Science Manager at British Gas, United Kingdom. Operating at strategic levels, he leads on the leveraging sophisticated machine learning and big data analytics and capabilities in enabling and driving business strategy thereby creating business value. Experienced in the exploitation of a range of data mining, advanced analytical and artificial intelligence techniques to understand customer behavior, derive critical insights, optimize operations and solve complex business problems.
Abstract:
Listening to the voice of customers plays a prominent role in a customer-centric business strategy. But with the business environment’s increased complexity and dynamism for a customer-centric business to thrive in its value delivery, there is a growing need for personalization of business offering and continuous evolution of business decisions in such a way that they align with changes in customer needs. These requirements could be challenging, particularly in organizations with a large customer base. In response, this talk presents how advanced analytics and machine learning techniques have enabled operational efficiency and business effectiveness in large organizations. Specifically, this address highlights how tree-based machine learning methods have been employed in understanding and prescribing solutions to complex and evolving operational business problems. Furthermore, it presents insights into, how uplift modeling has improved response rates and returns on marketing spends in large-scale targeted campaigns. Underpinning this talk is a discussion of the leadership approach that informed these innovations.
Keynote Forum
Mr. Manoj Mishra
Union Insurance Company, UAE
Keynote: Data Virtualization - Using Data Virtualization for an Integrated Analytics Platform
Time : 11:10 - 11:25
Biography:
Manoj Mishra has completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and a Certification in Data Science from Johns Hopkins University. More than two decade of experience spreading across multiple geographies (US, Europe, India and Middle East) working with organizations like Adobe Systems, Dell, Perot Systems, CEB-Gartner, Rolta and Tata Group. He currently a Chief Manager-Business intelligence and data with union insurance and currently leading their data strategy and technology transformations through data analytics, research and various AI initiatives.
Abstract:
In order to have the competitive advantage, organizations worldwide are driving the need for better analytics (historical, real-time, predictive and cognitive) of data across various domains including customers, products, services and operations. Due to this, the data available for such analytics is exploding in size, technology and complexity. For many years companies have invested in technologies like data warehouses, data marts, OLAP tools, Big Data/Hadoop systems and streaming real-time analytics platforms to take advantage of these opportunities. Total value preposition to the business is maximized only when these are combined into an integrated analytics platform. However, traditional tools cannot integrate streaming data and data-at-rest especially when the data is spread on-premises, cloud, websites and documents everywhere. Data virtualization can be used to provide cross platform logical views of data and analytic insights across the enterprise to provide an integrated analytics platform. By utilizing native integration with in-memory data grids for data processing, data virtualization can deliver a unified and centralized data services fabric with security and real-time integration across multiple traditional and big data sources, including Hadoop, NoSQL, cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS). Hence data virtualization is becoming a need to address the unique challenges of data explosion in today’s changing business climate.
- Machine Learning | Artificial intelligence applications | Artificial intelligence applications | Deep Learning | Deep Learning Frameworks | Data analytics in cloud | Pattern Recognition | Facial Expression and Emotion Detection | Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) & Chainer | Augmented reality (AR) and Virtual reality (VR) |
Chair
Shabir Momin
ZengaTV.com, Singapore
Co-Chair
Santosh Godbole
SSN Solutions Limited, India
Session Introduction
Harshavardhana Kikkeri
Kaaya Tech Inc, USA
Title: Heralding the era of machine teaching – Where you clothes become your virtual AI trainer
Time : 13:10 - 13:40
Biography:
Abstract:
Santosh Godbole
SSN Solutions Limited, India
Title: Applying big data analytics and machine learning in precision marketing
Time : 13:40 - 14:10
Biography:
Santosh is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at SSN Solutions Limited. At SSN, his role is to define product and technology roadmap. Prior to SSN, he was a Senior Director of Engineering at ARRIS (India). At ARRIS, he has managed a large team of engineers that was spread across multiple countries. He also held various senior level positions such as Director Product Management at Cisco Video Technologies, Vice President Product Management at NDS Services Pay-TV Technology Pvt. Ltd., Co-Founder and VP Engineering of Sensact Applications and Co-Founder and Architect at Metabyte Networks. He holds Executive General Management Program (EGMP) certificate from IIM Bangalore, MS in Computer Science from IIT, Madras and BE in Computer Science, MS from University of Baroda.
Abstract:
The idea of creating and using consumer personas is not new. Marketers have been going through painstakingly long way to understand and define consumer persona for their products. Further, they go through an intricate process of defining and executing elaborate campaigns to acquire consumer information and map the same to required personas. Even after spending big portion of their budget, marketers face various problems in reaching out to the right consumer: Data acquisition is an expensive task, many times data is not authentic or recent; all this starts to affect the conversion rate of the business making the ROI a far-fetched dream. Typical approach used in data acquisition and persona creation suffers from multiple problems: Most personas built today are static. Yes, the practice of updating consumer profile periodically is helpful but not ideal. Second, there are just too many factors (attributes) involved in the consumer’s decision making process. Marketer’s approach of confining consumer to few personas is quite limiting and inaccurate. The answer to these complex problems is to build multidimensional consumer profile that is always up-to-date. This is possible by engaging the consumers at various stages during their day, be it online venues such as social network, reviews, blogs, opinions, surveys or offline venues such as surveys, transactions, logs and so on. Developing a multidimensional profile that is up-to-date is not a simple task. It is the kind of problem where tools such as big data, data analytics and machine learning can be used most effectively.
Biography:
Tanya Dixit has completed her BTech from BITS Pilani in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. She is working as an Engineer at Qualcomm, a pioneer in wireless and IOT chips. She is a machine learning and artificial intelligence enthusiast and is a deep thinker. She has a firm grasp of psychology, cognitive science, embedded systems, machine learning and hopes to build products that make the life of the common man better.
Abstract:
Sociological imagination is the awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the society. This talk is about methods to apply artificial intelligence in ways that can help a human being more connected to the society that he/she is living in. There are three focal points of this talk: Education, health and social interactions. Artificial intelligence can be applied to education and help more students get educated. Wearable’s and virtual reality is the technology to be used in making education accessible and make it application based. Similarly, for medicine, existing IOT products to be linked and generate an online assessment report on each person, and let a text analyzer process that for red flags. Emile Durkheim, in his classic book called suicide, mentions the main cause of suicide as the dissociation of a person from the society. AI products can help solve this dissociation by eliminating boundaries between human body and computers. Humans would be able to access information at the speed of thought and that will help a person get connected to more people like himself, thus eliminating suicide. Also, video camera analyzers to analyze footage and assess the body language of humans in real time thus predicting rapes, assaults and general nuances, thus leading to their timely resolution.
Ahmed AlMaqabi
ALMAQABI, Kingdom of Bahrain
Title: Could machine learning and other technologies disrupt audit industry ?
Time : 14:40 - 15:10
Biography:
Ahmed has completed his CPA exams at the age of 22 years from California Board of Accountancy. He is the Founder and CEO of Almaqabi, a startup leading blockchain in audit & banking industry in Middle East. He has more than 10 years Big 4 experience in USA and Middle East.
Abstract:
Almaqabi is exploring the use of blockchain, machine learning, artificial intelligence, automation and Internet of Things (IOT) in audit. Department of eAuditchain focus on 4th industrial revolution technologies solutions to banks and financial instituions. Blockchain Audit Council was annouced recently to help top management of companies and bank understand the impact of 4th industrial revolution technologies on how it will change the way we live, work and interact with each other. Almaqabi won and recognized in regional competitions including AIM startup roadshow competition organized by Dubai Ministry of Economy.
Kai Khalid Miethig
Lobbe Environmental Consultant, Germany
Title: W-AI-STE and architecture waste management in buildings with the support of machine learning and artifical intelligence
Time : 15:30 - 16:00
Biography:
Kai Khalid Miethig has completed his architectural study in 2004 at the University of Siegen, previous known as University of Applied Sciences of Siegen and gained further experience in waste management at Lobbe Environmental Consultancy. He has more than a decade experience in project management and lecturing. He is the Managing Director of Tariq Faqeeh Engineering in Bahrain, dedicated to enhance lifestyle and quality of living, offering various unique services for developers, government entities and individuals. He initiated the environmental awareness campaign “A Wave of Change” in cooperation with the Supreme Council of Environment Bahrain, German Embassy Bahrain and CleanUp Bahrain in 2017 and is providing/lectures on environmental awareness as well on the context and connection of architecture and waste management automation.
Abstract:
W-AI-STE - The implementation of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the processes of waste management, segregation and collection in architectural developments. It is a new and unique form of combining the existing technologies with the latest technologies of artificial intelligence and machine learning for an ancient issue the humanity is facing ever since mankind exists: Waste management. Due to the fact that the population is increasing continuously and therewith the production of waste as well, why not using the available technologies and features for supporting that basic task, which no one wants to deal with and is a topic which is now becoming a worldwide problem. Anywhere in the world where humans are present and were present as well even in areas humans never have been waste can be found as a remains of human existence. As we all are aware of smart home systems, e.g. fingerprints for entrance control and access or speech control featuring various functions in the house, this AI and ML technologies can be as well implemented for our daily legacies: WASTE- W-AI-STE. All humans have a certain pattern of whatever they do or their habits, these pattern and habits are as well detectable in their waste. Most waste comes from food packing and packing in general, so people have their favorite food, ingredients and other recurrent favorites which can be recorded, tracked and analyzed with the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning. So in an early stage of developments for residential and commercial purpose the pattern can be used to develop the concept of waste management systems.
Abed Benaichouche
Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Title: Overview of recent advance of deep learning application in computer vision
Time : 16:00 - 16:30
Biography:
Abed Benaichouche has completed his PhD from Ecole Nationale Superieur des Mines de Paris and Postdoctoral studies from French Geological Survey. He is a Senior Research Engineer and Team Leader at Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence, (IIAI) the UAE’s national research organization, which aims for breakthroughs in fundamental and applied AI research. He has published more than 10 papers in reputed journals and international conferences. Before joining IIAI, he has worked for 2 years in BRGM (France) as Research Engineer. He designed and developed the Suricate-Nat platform; interactive web platform to collect information and analyzing it using NLP techniques on natural disasters emitted by citizens using social networks Twitter. He was also the Project Manager of the development of international interoperable platform for multi-risk analysis.
Abstract:
In recent years, deep learning (DL) has won numerous contests in computer vision and machine learning. In this presentation, we will present real world applications of Conventional Neuronal Network (CNN), Recurrent Network (RNN) and Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) in computer vision area. In the presentation, we will show a selection of recent research that Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI) is leading in the field of computer vision and artificial intelligence. For the CNN, we will present its application for face detection and annotation, demo for object detection and pose camera estimation. For the GANs, we will show its use for image colorization and art style transfer. And finally we present a new approach for face detection and super-resolution using both CNN and GAN models. For each demo we present the designed network, its limitations and the give perspectives for possible improvement.
Antonio Andrade
Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) , Oman
Title: PDO’s BLADE WRFM optimisation project shell upstream international impact awards project winner
Time : 15:20 - 15:50
Biography:
Antonio Andrade has completed his MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Liverpool and a BE in Electronic Engineer from UNEFA. Over the last 10 years, he has focused on the oil and gas upstream industry. Currently, he holds the position of Senior Realtime Engineer at Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) where he has dedicated to showcase the potential of the AI and ML for the oil and gas industry. He has published over 10 papers in the SPE and other recognized global workshops.
Abstract:
The blade II project showcases how businesses could potentially increase efficiencies with existing infrastructure (sweating the asset) by implementing prescriptive analytics aligned with people and processes as key to success. The project was the winner of the prestigious shell upstream award 2016 in the category of operational excellence. Without a clear blueprint for success, the asset’s team believed that rod pump controllers with variable speed drives were all needed to self-optimize the beam pump wells. When we got involved, we needed to return back to the design board with zero CapEx. The second phase of the project utilized the existing infrastructure twisting the way of operation of the Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) in thermal field, with remote orchestration improving the oil recovery, reducing HSE exposure and mechanical failures.
- POSTER PRESENTATION 16:30-17:30
Session Introduction
Balasubramanyam Pisupati
Robert Bosch, India
Title: Ensemble of time series forecasting in complex structure
Biography:
Balasubramanyam Pisupati is currently working with Robert Bosch Engineering Solution and Business Solution as a Senior Manager in Data Analytics team. He has accomplished senior statistical professional with rich experience of more than 10 years in software industry related to product development, testing and data mining.
Abstract:
Forecasting is necessary for better business understanding and decision making. When it is done manually, it requires a lot of effort and time from multiple departments like logistics, sales, finance, etc. It also involves lot of gut feeling from experienced people and sometimes it might lead to error prone prediction if person is inexperienced or is not aware of past behavior. It is even very challenging for any data scientist to find a forecast model that performs best for all scenarios and in all forecast horizons. In this paper an approach for forecasting using ensemble model is discussed. Ensembling is done using symmetric mean absolute percentage error and mean absolute percentage error calculated from rolling forecast approach. For validation of forecast model, M3 competition data is used. This approach has resulted in better performance on out of sample prediction.
Beesung Kam
Pusan national university, South Korea
Title: Predicting future rank and score of graduation by using student’s status and temporal behaviour
Biography:
Beesung Kam has his degree in Computer Science and another in Medical Anatomy. He has completed his second PhD from Pusan National University School of Medicine. He is the Director of Maritime Mobile Health Research, a premier bio-soft service organization. He is researching in the area of medical education since 2005 and has digitalized student assessments of different grades.
Abstract:
Although there is a rich literature predicting student performance based on courses and lectures, it is much less studied in predicting degree completion upon affection of student’s personality. Student’s low score of graduation is a critical issue in medical school because students who result in lower scores mostly fail from Korean Medical Licensing Examination (KMLE). This paper introduces a method of supervised learning to predict future rank and score of students by using information provided prior of entrance to the school. Data sets of 256 number of graduated students from Pusan National University School of Medicine school year of 2016 and 2017 were distributed to machine learning by 2500 times. By using method of ordinary least squares regression three groups of students were established depending on their achieved final graduation to low, mid and high scores. These groups were used as a guideline to pivot personality data of freshmen for further comparison. Prediction analyzed by student’s status, based on their student’s temporal behavior such as age, sex, blood type, school of graduation, district, major, hobby, religious, drinking habit, parent’s status, tuition method of payment and registration to an application can influence on their future earned rank and score. Predicating future student rank and score helps to monitor, review and re-establish student’s road map to enhance learning progress. This prediction not only helps student to know how they do but also encourages them as a feedback to reinforce their current method of learning for further improvement. Although increasing pilot data for this study can enhance the study achievement and improving student personality can be challenging, method of determining low score of graduation by machine learning can sparkle new era to progress learning.
Semakula Abdumajidhu
Makerere University, Uganda
Title: Sooty mold effect on cassava yields using convolutional neural networks
Biography:
Semakula Abdumajidhu is currently pursuing his Master of Science degree in Computer Science at the College of Computing and Information Sciences (CoCIS), Makerere University. His major is Computer Vision and Image Processing with his current research on crop diseases.
Abstract:
Whiteflies have been observed to cause two forms of damage to the host cassava plants that is feeding damage and sooty damage. The secondary damage, referred to as sooty mold damage, is a result of honeydew dropped by the feeding whiteflies on lower leaves. It is characterized with a sooty darkening of the lower leaves that affect chlorophyll content levels, because chlorophyll is an indicator of plants nutritional stress, photosynthetic capacity and the healthy status of plants. Plants need much possible levels of chlorophyll content to absorb enough light that is to be used during photosynthesis for them to make their own food. Sooty mold damage with its black-darkening-effect abstract the leaves from getting direct light rays during the photosynthesis process which leads to low cassava yields. The use of machine learning for surveilling the health of crops has been looked at in a number of related settings, including the segmentation of diseased leaves and disease-related dis-coloration in citrus fruit. The study will be aimed at understanding the effect of sooty mold on chlorophyll content in cassava plants and see how we can improve and raise on the cassava yields. Five cassava varieties that are narocass 1, nase 14, mkumba, njule and bamunanika will be considered during the research. We shall determine the level of infestation by sooty mold on these cassava varieties and tell which variety is most affected. We shall analyze and relate spectral reading data with chlorophyll content to measure how much of chlorophyll is affected by sooty mold damage in cassava images. We shall develop a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model to estimate pigment (chlorophyll) content based on spectrometer readings. Using our model, we shall determine the percentage of the plant being affected and the extent covered by sooty mold. We shall use field spectrometer to take spectral field measurements and also carry out remote sensing analysis of the data. This data will be related to the chlorophyll content to determine the levels of sooty mold effect. The research will lead to increase in cassava yields as a result to a more accurate detection of sooty molds. This will improve the response time for whiteflies and sooty mold infected cassava care. This will no longer be need for handcrafting/manually extracting features.
Rohit Agarwal & Gaurav Pawar
Mobisy Technologies Pvt Ltd, India
Title: An overview of deep learning based object detection techniques in retail domain
Biography:
Rohit Agarwal is working as a Data Scientist in Mobisy Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore where he leads a team of data scientists and software engineers, focusing on sales force automation by applying state of the art ML and deep learning techniques. He has 12 years of industry experience with 11 years in GE where he worked on conceptualizing, designing, prototyping a number of software and data solutions using cutting edge technologies for solving large industrial problems. He has completed his Masters in IT from IIIT, Bangalore and Bachelors in Computer Science from IET, Lucknow.
Gaurav Pawar has completed his BE degree in Electronics and Telecommunication with more than 3 years of practical hands-on experience in computer vision and machine learning. He is specialized in building quick prototypes using python environment by leveraging GPU platform. He has expertise in using popular deep learning libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch and Keras. Currently, he is interested in solving data science problems in Indian retail industry using images and other source of data.
Abstract:
We have used image recognition and machine learning technology to automate some of the time consuming and error prone auditing use cases pertinent for SME retail stores (aka mom-n-pop stores) like which all SKU type are present in particular store. Check if the store has put out advertising of the brand as was agreed upon. Current process of store auditing is conducted through feet on street sales force/external auditing agencies which is manual, biased, time consuming, costly affair and is not scalable. Leveraging the state of art deep learning image recognition technology, our platform helps in automating store auditing process by acting as eyes for tracking all types of in-store visibility executions like window displays, POS material and outdoor advertising/banners with high degree of precision (>90%) which is much better than classical approached like SVM (~80%). The platform can analyze millions of retail store images to generate actionable insights for brands/company. Role of the sales force is limited to take pictures of the stores and upload them to our platform. Most of the current image analytics platform works with high quality images of organized environment like supermarkets, this makes our platform different as it has been specifically designed for mom-n-pop store setup which symbolizes unorganized shelves and cluttered environment. The images obtained are also low quality as they are typically shot by sales force using low quality mobile camera. Some of the common issues with these images are low light, partial visibility, occlusion, glare, incorrect angle, etc. In this, we intend to give a technical overview of the platform, highlight its capability to analyze images of varying nature, showcase few use cases in SME domain that can be implemented using this platform.
Noor Alasadi
Damascus University School of Information Technology Engineering Department of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, Lebanon
Title: Lamassu – Detecting cyber extremism via automatic lexical feature discovery and social analysis: An application on Jihad of demand networks
Biography:
Noor Alasadi is a Senior Data Scientist at Creditinfo Group, a leading service provider of credit information and risk management solutions worldwide. He is a Graduate Instructor and a Researcher at Damascus University, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. He is also a Member of the Scientific Committee of the ACM-ICPC in which he was a Judge, Problem Setter, Coach and Organizer in the Arab Collegiate Programming Contest (2012-2017). He was also involved in multiple private-public partnership projects with companies and authorities in the Middle East to build intelligent security systems.
Abstract:
Social networking websites have enjoyed a great success in recent years, apart from the numerous new opportunities that they are providing, extremist groups and terrorist organizations are using them to promote their ideology to facilitate internal communications and to evoke a planned psychological reaction in their enemies. Many web resources contain information about extremism, but a relatively small proportion comes from terrorist groups themselves and since manually monitoring and analyzing all their content separately during warfare is unattainable, solutions using automated methods are sought. This study applies machine learning techniques to perform automated extremist language detection. In this project, we proposed an approach for detecting extremist content and identifying potential extremist users in social media. The study’s methodology explores features in users’ histories to predict extremism via statistical topic model on an Arabic corpus which detects extremist posts with automatically generated features and a graded structure in which, whether extremism applies to a given person is a matter of degree related to multiple factors. To demonstrate our work, we created a dataset containing over 360,000 web forum posts. Experiments on a sampled data set show precision of 96.20% and recall of 94.90%.
Aisha AlOwais
Sharjah Center for Astronomy and Space Sciences, United Arab Emirates
Title: Deep learning- An application of machine learning to classify Images
Biography:
Aisha Al Owais has completed her BSc in Computer Science from the College of Engineering at the American University of Sharjah. She is working as a Research Assistant in the Meteorites Center at the Sharjah Center for Astronomy and Space Sciences.
Abstract:
Living in the 21st century, mankind’s most powerful weapon is technology. The field of technology we are interested in is computer science, specifically Artificial Intelligence (AI). As the name suggests, AI is about turning devices into intelligent agents that take actions based on the environment they perceive. They are also flexible in terms of changing their goal- what they are meant to do as well as adjusting their actions depending on its changing environment. What makes AI agents peculiar is their ability to learn and remember from their mistakes. Furthermore, Machine Learning (ML) is one of AI’s applications that enable systems to learn automatically, improve through experience and adjust its actions without human intervention. This takes us to Deep Learning (DL), a new subfield of ML concerned with algorithms inspired by the structure and function of the human’s brain called artificial neural networks. It has networks which are capable of learning data obtained from instructed or unlabeled data; therefore it is also known Deep Neural Network (DNN). All those terms lead us to what we are mostly interested in, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which is a deep neural network that is particularly wall-adapted to classify images, in our case to classify images of meteorites.
Nabil BELGASMI
Banque de Tunisie, Tunisia
Title: Multiobjective deep reinforcement learning approach for ATM cash replenishment planning
Biography:
Nabil BELGASMI holds a PhD and an Engineering Degree in Computer Science from Manouba University. He is a full stack data scientist at Banque de Tunisie. He is involved in 3 main activities: (a) Applied R&D, (b) Data Analytics Technology Watch and (c) Data Science consulting. He achieved many successful Data Science POCs and Quick-Wins: Credit Scoring, Forecasting, Cash Planning, Anomaly/Fraud Detection, Customers Profiling, Intelligent Transactions Scoring & Monitoring, etc. He is member of the industrial editorial board of the Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence journal (EAAI) and advisor of the 4th international conference on Next Generation Computing Technologies.
Abstract:
The current framework of reinforcement learning is based on a single objective performance optimization, that is maximizing the expected returns based on scalar rewards that come from either univariate environment response to the agent actions or from a weighted aggregation of a multivariate response. But in many real world situations, tradeoffs must be made among multiple conflicting objectives that have different order of magnitude, measurement units and business specific contexts related to the problem being solved (i.e. costs, lead time, quality of service, profits, etc.). The aggregation of such sub-rewards to get a scalar reward assumes a perfect knowledge about the decision maker preferences and the way she perceives the importance of each objective. In this study, we consider the problem of learning the best ATM cash replenishment policies in an uncertain multiobjective context given an arbitrary history of cash withdrawals that may be nonstationary and may contain outliers. We propose a model-free Multiobjective Deep Reinforcement Learning approach that allows us to compete against the human decision maker and to find the best policy per ATM that outperforms the current human policy. The idea is to disaggregate the performance of a replenishment policy to form a vector of objective functions. The performance of the human policy is then a multi-dimensional reference point (Rh). The task of the deep reinforcement learning algorithm is to find a policy that generates a set of performance points which Pareto-dominate the current human reference point (Rh).
- WORKSHOP
Session Introduction
Manoj Mishra
Union Insurance, UAE
Title: Emerging trends in machine learning
Time : 11:25 - 12:10
Biography:
A distinguished Technology leader driving transformation through innovation in Data Engineering, Data Management and Data Science. Holds a “Bachelor of Engineering” in Computer Science and a certification in “Data Science” from “Johns Hopkins University” Transformational leader, with a track record of developing solutions for future, creating benchmark of performance and success. More than two decade of experience spreading across multiple geographies (US, Europe, India and Middle East) working with Organizations like Adobe Systems, Dell, Perot Systems, CEB-Gartner, Rolta and Tata Group. Moved to Dubai in June 2017 to take a leadership role as “Chief Manager–Business Intelligence & Data” with Union Insurance and currently leading their Data Strategy and Technology Transformations through Data, Analytics, research & various AI initiatives.
Abstract:
In this time of immense machine learning skills shortage, Data and analytics leaders face a dilemma. Without data scientists, venturing into machine learning and data science is difficult. Without any successful pilots, convincing the business to hire data scientists is equally challenging. Auto ML is a concept started by H2o which has been recently gone to the next level by Google's Automated Machine Learning which lets you train custom machine learning models without having to code. My workshop will be focusing on these trends in a little more detail and also a demo on how these trends can be leveraged.