11 posts tagged with "talk"

GRIDS hosted an exhilarating Prof Talk featuring esteemed speaker Dr. Chris Mattmann, renowned for his expertise in space exploration and NASA data. The event, held online on April 30, 2024, captivated attendees with insights into unlocking the potential of NASA data to drive innovation and discovery in space exploration.

Dr. Chris Mattmann's engaging presentation provided attendees with a deeper understanding of the power of NASA data and its implications for space exploration. Participants were enthralled by Dr. Mattmann's expertise and passion for the subject, which shone through in his illuminating discussion.

The Industry Talk with Deloitte, presented by Advaita Chandramohan, Business Technology Solutions Analyst, provided USC Viterbi students with invaluable insights into the recruitment process at Deloitte. The online session attracted a diverse audience eager to learn about securing offers at Deloitte.

This talk was led by our very own Satwant Singh! Satwant is a final year Applied Data Science student who has extensive research and industry experience in machine learning.

Graph neural networks are a type of deep learning algorithm that are designed to work with graph-structured data.

During the talk, Satwant provided an overview of what Graph Neural Networks are, how they work, and their applications in various fields, such as social network analysis, recommender systems, and drug discovery. He also discussed the challenges of working with graph-structured data and how graph neural networks can help overcome some of these challenges.

Social media platforms have lately become the primary means of communication and source of news for billions of people around the world. This growth in activity on platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, has made them rich sources of data for understanding how people interact with and are influenced by information online. Given the importance of computational methods in analyzing this data, we were very excited to host a talk by Ashok Deb, a USC CS PhD student and currently-serving, Active-duty Army officer, on the topic of mining social media and using Twitter for research purposes. Ashok has extensive experience of working with social media data in applications areas ranging from political elections and cyber security to social consumerism and health behaviors, and shared with us his experience, insights, and advice on analyzing sociopolitical campaigns on Twitter and the challenges it holds.

With career fairs right around the corner, our first talk for Spring 2020 was a timely one on the topic of technical recruiting. Emily Chen, a current USC CS PhD student and former software engineer at Cisco Systems (where was part of the campus team as a technical recruiter and interviewer for 3 recruiting seasons at top schools), shared her experience, insights, and advice for those navigating this process right now or planning to do so in the future.

Josh Chapman, Manager of Data Engineering at The Honest Company, stopped by GRIDS and presented on the topic of Data Engineering. He provided a great overview of the subject and also dove into tips from real-world experience and industry best practices. We really appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experience with us, Josh!

GRIDS’s fearless leader Samar Haider led us on a journey through Deep Learning with Python, starting from the basics of machine learning and deep learning all the way to today’s applications of the technology as well as how anyone can get started using freely available tools. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us, Samar!

GRIDS members had a very spooky treat on Halloween as Romi Alsaid, a Computer Science master’s student at USC, presented on the topic of Data Visualization. She took us through topics such as information visualization, visualization design, and the tools used in this broad field, as well as answer our questions at the end. You really know your stuff, Romi, and we appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us.

On Thursday, 10/24, Keith Burghardt, a computer scientist at USC Information Sciences Institute, gave a talk on visualizing and analyzing graphs in Python. We really enjoyed your presentation, Keith - thanks so much!

Our second data science talk of the semester was from Mozhdeh Gheini, first-semester Ph.D. student working with Professor Jonathan May at the USC Information Sciences Institute. She presented on the topic of “What You Need to Know to get Started with NLP”, the area she focuses in. Thank you for the great evening, Mozhdeh!