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Event Description

Artificial intelligence is profoundly changing our lives.  Fueled by recent advances in machine and deep learning, fields such as computer vision, speech recognition, and pattern recognition are being transformed.  Advances in technology are redefining applications in human computer interaction, advanced manufacturing, social networking, autonomous systems, security, and entertainment.

This 2-day workshop is designed to bring you up to speed on the hottest topics in machine and deep learning. You will learn AI models during hands-on exercises and learn how to apply concepts and tools to challenges and opportunities with these models and tools.

When and Where

• Friday, 12 July 2019 and Saturday 13 July 2019
• World University of Bangladesh, Dhaka

Resource Person

Dr. Badrul Munir Sarwar

Dr. Badrul Munir Sarwar is a Staff Machine Learning Scientist in LinkedIn Corporation, USA, where he works on various machine learning and deep learning projects. He is one of the founders of LinkedIn’s AI Academy that is instrumental in training all engineers with the concepts of ML/AI. Prior to that, he was a Staff Research Scientist at eBay Research Labs in San Jose, California where he worked for 10 years on various projects focusing on the broad areas of large-scale machine learning applied to personalized recommendation, approximate/randomized algorithms for matrix factorization, search ranking, and deep learning/word embedding.

Dr Sarwar has an M.S and a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the BUET. Prior to that He finished S.S.C and H.S.C with highest distinction from Mirzapur Cadet College being placed in the top 20 of combined merit list.

In addition to the Seoul Test of Time award, Dr. Sarwar received other awards and honors for his research work – AAAI Classic paper award 2017 (honorable mention), Best short paper award by ACM Recommender Systems Conference 2011, eBay innovation award, mentioned as a pioneer of recommender system algorithm in an article appeared in the March 12th, 2005 issue of the Economist magazine, to name a few.