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Student Awareness Event for Universities and Vocational Training Institutions on AI and Machine Learning
Agenda
8
00AM
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8
30AM
8
30AM
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10
30AM
Reinforcement learning - Tech Talk and Hands-on by Dr. Chrisantha Fernando
Dr. Chrisantha Fernando10
30AM
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11
00AM
11
00AM
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12
30PM
Business Cases for Data Science
Dr. Rukshan Batuwita12
30PM
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1
15PM
2
45PM
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4
00PM
Session by Srinath Perera
Dr. Srinath Perera4
00PM
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4
15PM
5
15PM
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5
25PM
Reinforcement learning - Tech Talk and Hands-on by Dr. Chrisantha Fernando
Speakers
Dr. Chrisantha Fernando
Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMindDr. Chrisantha is a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Earned his PhD in Computer Science, University of Sussex, MD in Physiological Sciences, University of Oxford. Before joining Google DeepMind, he also served as a Lecturer in Cognitive Robotics and AI at the Queen Mary University of London
Business Cases for Data Science
Speakers
Dr. Rukshan Batuwita
Former Lead Data Scientist at Woolworths Group, AustraliaDr. Rukshan Batuwita has been working in Data Science/applied Machine Learning in both industry and academia for the last 13 years.
Session by Srinath Perera
Speakers
Dr. Srinath Perera
Vice President - Research at WSO2Srinath is the Vice President of Research in the CTO office at WSO2.
He is a scientist, software architect, and a programmer who works on distributed systems. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and a key architect behind several widely used projects such as Apache Axis2 and WSO2 CEP.
He has authored two books about MapReduce and is a frequent author of technical articles. Srinath received his PhD from Indiana University, USA in 2009.
Srinath also serves as a Research Scientist at the Lanka Software Foundation, and he teaches as a visiting faculty member at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa.
Speakers
Dr. Chrisantha is a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Earned his PhD in Computer Science, University of Sussex, MD in Physiological Sciences, University of Oxford. Before joining Google DeepMind, he also served as a Lecturer in Cognitive Robotics and AI at the Queen Mary University of London
Dr. Srinath
Perera
Vice President - Research at WSO2
Srinath is the Vice President of Research in the CTO office at WSO2.
He is a scientist, software architect, and a programmer who works on distributed systems. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and a key architect behind several widely used projects such as Apache Axis2 and WSO2 CEP.
He has authored two books about MapReduce and is a frequent author of technical articles. Srinath received his PhD from Indiana University, USA in 2009.
Srinath also serves as a Research Scientist at the Lanka Software Foundation, and he teaches as a visiting faculty member at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa.
Dr, Romesh
Ranawana
CTO at TENGRI UAV (Pvt) LTD
Romesh Ranawana PhD currently serves as the CTO at TENGRI UAV PTE LTD. He is a former lecturer at the University of Peradeniya, Tutor at Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford and was a computer Scientist at InhibOx. He also served at SimCentric Technologies as CTO, Managing Director and Co-Founder from 2008 to 2018. Dr. Ranawana is also a member of the Management Board at the University of Colombo School of Computing since 2018.
Dr. Rukshan
Batuwita
Former Lead Data Scientist at Woolworths Group, Australia
Dr. Rukshan Batuwita has been working in Data Science/applied Machine Learning in both industry and academia for the last 13 years.
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