Type of Activity: Technical
Description:
IEEE COMSOC Lahore Chapter in collaboration with IEEE LUMS Student Branch Lahore Section, organized a two-day event, “National Big Data and Technologies Workshop 2018” on 24th and 25th March 2018. The event was hosted by Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Pakistan.
In the context of emergence and recent advancement of big data industries around the world,this workshop was organized to get the participants be familiarized of the concepts and get the hands-on experience of some of the tools and techniques used both in industry and academia. The program covered three lab sessions and five very informative talks on various applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Dr SheikhFaisal from KICS UET presented a talk on Deep Learning and Applications, Dr. Rana M. Gufran from FAST National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (NUCES) Faisalabad delivered a lecture on “Gradient Descent Algorithm and its variants”. Prof. Dr. Mian M. Awais from LUMS presented his work on “Muweshi Paal (Animal Farmer) System”.Mr. Ahmad Nadeem (Data Analyst) from Energy Informatics Group (EIG), LUMS conducted the lab session on “Data Analytics Workshop using R” Mr. Mazhar Javed Awan from UMT Lahore delivered an introductory lecture on how SQL is used in big data analytics and its useful features such as distribution of data across a cluster, parallel data processing, and its support for different machine learning algorithms.Then Mohsin Ali senior manager from Infogistic gave talk on big data in health care. Dr. Ali Hammad Akbar fromUniversity of Engineering & Technology (UET) Lahore presented his research paper, “Indoor Localization using Wi-Fi: Top Five Technologies”, on application of machine learning algorithms on fingerprinting data to improve indoor localizations.
Impact of Event on Community
160 participants from both industry (36%) and the academia (64%) attend the workshop. Published in IEEE Communication Magazine.
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