Learn Analytics, Statistics, and GPUs with MATLAB
Wednesday, May 25 and Thursday, May 26
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Lecture Hall 2325, Engineering Science Hall (bldg. 9)
Breakfast at 8:30 a.m. and lunch at 12:00 p.m.
Please confirm your attendance by emailing Alain.Clo@kaust.edu.sa.
Speakers:
Amine El Helou and Mounir El Bedraoui from Mathworks and Alain Clò from Research Computing.
Agenda:
Wednesday, May 25
9:00 a.m.
MathWorks and introduction by Alain Clò
9:30 a.m.
MATLAB major updates for data analytics
- What’s new in MATLAB?
- What’s new in statistics & machine-learning
- What’s new in image processing/computer vision
- Introduction to the ThingSpeak platform
10:45 a.m.
Coffee break and discussions
11:00 a.m.
MATLAB user-story in KAUST talk TBD (Alain)
12:30 p.m.
Lunch break and discussions
1:30 p.m.
Workshop: Data Preparation & Exploratory Data Analysis
- Handling missing data
- Techniques for visualizing high-dimensional data
- Dimension reduction techniques
4:45 p.m.
Wrap-up and Q&A.
Thursday, May 26
9:00 a.m.
Workshop: Obtaining insight into large data sets
- Finding patterns in data
- Natural clustering (unsupervised learning)
- Building a predictive model (supervised learning)
12:15 p.m.
Lunch break & discussions
1:15 p.m.
Masterclass: Deep-learning with GPUs
- Concepts of deep-learning for computer vision
- Training a convolution neural network from scratch
4:30 p.m.
Wrap-up and open discussions
5:00 p.m.
End of the workshop.
