Big Data, Data Science and Machine Learning

About

KTU Big Data School 2023 is both theoretical and practical scientific event aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers topics such as big data and financial analytics, machine learning, big data processing, etc.
The event is concentrated towards deep theoretical background and improving skills during practical workshops.
The event will take place at Kaunas University of technology and is organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. The sessions will be held at KTU Technology and Business Centre Santaka Valley.
There will be three sessions given by different experienced speakers involving lectures and practical tasks.

This year, three topics will be covered in depth (theory and hands-on sessions for each):

May 3, 2023: Dr. Wannes Meert (KU Leuven, Belgium): Learning, evaluating and verifying tree-based models

May 4, 2023: Dr. Michael Fairbank (University of Essex, UK): Recurrent neural network and their application

May 5, 2023: Dr. Mindaugas Kavaliauskas (KTU FMNS, Lithuania): Data classification using support vector machine

One day is for one topic: approximately 6 hours per day.

Working programming language will be Python for all topics. Each lecturer has extensive experience in running theory and hands on sessions.

Course leader

Assoc. prof. Tomas Iesmantas, Kaunas University of Technology

Target group

Industry practitioners, Scientists, PhD students, postdocs and Master students.

Fee info