ACM India Summer School 2018
- Venue : Goa University, Goa
- Date : June 4 to June 15, 2018
Course Contents:
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Mathematical foundation, basic statistical analysis and data visualization: Matrix Algebra, Probability and random processes, inferential statistics, optimization for data science and data visualization;
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Elements of machine learning: Supervised learning (methods: linear and logistic regression, K-NN, LDA, Tree based methods, SVMs, ANNs. Concepts: Bias-Variance tradeoff, regularization, dimensionality reduction), unsupervised learning (clustering and ARM); (iii) Advanced topics: Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Topics in Big Data and Learning Theory.
Faculty :
Balaraman Ravindran, IIT Madras
Mitesh Khapra, IIT Madras
Raghunathan Rengaswamy, IIT Madras
Harish Guruprasad, IIT Madras
Nandan Sudarsanam, IIT Madras
Sahely Bhadra - IIT Palakkad
Sourangshu Bhattachrya, IIT Kharagpur
Anirban Dasgupta, IIT Gandhinagar
Piyush Rai, IIT Kanpur
Prerequisites:
The course requires an understanding of algebra, calculus, and proficiency in programming.
Course coordinators:
Nandan Sudarsanam, IIT Madrass
Harish Guruprasad, IIT Madras
Balaraman Ravindran, IIT Madras