Hiya folks,

A gentle reminder of the online seminar next Tuesday from the SSA Canberra branch, including updates for talk title and abstract.

Thank you!

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Please forward to those who may be interested.

SSA Canberra Branch will be holding a joint meeting with Canberra Data Science Group on Tuesday 11^th October via Zoom. For those in Canberra, there will be the opportunity to informally meet for dinner afterwards in Civic.

We now have the title and abstract from the author. So the full information is below. Hope you can attend.

Zoom link:

Details given at the end of the email.

Date: Tuesday 11 October 2022

Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm AEDT (Zoom link will open at 5.30pm for pre-mingling)   

Speaker: Dr Cheng Soon Ong, CSIRO Data61, Canberra

Topic: What is a scientific instrument?

Abstract:

The process of scientific discovery is an interplay between going from data to knowledge and vice versa. Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence have changed the way we analyse data, and hence can be considered a kind of scientific instrument that helps us observe natural phenomenon. This talk looks at some examples of research at CSIRO, illustrating the different ways machine learning is an instrument for scientific discovery. We will focus on high level ideas, and there will be no theorems presented. 

Biography:

Cheng Soon Ong is a principal research scientist at the Machine Learning Research Group, Data61, CSIRO, and is the director of the machine learning and artificial intelligence future science platform at CSIRO. He is also an adjunct associate professor at the Australian National University. His PhD in Computer Science was completed at the Australian National University in 2005. He was a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics and the Fredrich Miescher Laboratory in Tübingen, Germany. From 2008 to 2011, he was a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, and in 2012 and 2013 he worked in the Diagnostic Genomics Team at NICTA in Melbourne. Since 2014, Cheng Soon is researching ways to enable scientific discovery by extending statistical machine learning methods with the Machine Learning Research Group in Data61, CSIRO in Canberra. Prior to his PhD, he researched and built search engine and Bahasa Malaysia technologies at Mimos Berhad, Malaysia. He obtained his B.E. (Information Systems) and B.Sc. (Computer Science) from the University of Sydney, Australia.

Canberra Data Scientists meetup group link:

https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/canberradatasci/events/287343034/

Dinner: After the talk we will be holding a dinner at Madam Lu Malaysian Restaurant, 20/42 West Row, Melbourne Building, Civic. (Madam Lu Malaysian Restaurant | Facebook).  If you are interested in attending the dinner, please let me know by 4pm Monday 10 October by entering your details at attendance sheet, or contacting me (warren.muller@csiro.au; 0407 916 868). Please regard this as a firm commitment, not just an intention. For withdrawals after the deadline, please remove your name from the sheet and phone or text me (0407 916 868).

NOTE: We are offering discounts to SSA ECSSC members who attend dinner! Specifically, dinners will be a fixed charge of $10 for student members and $20 for early career members. Others will pay their share of the bill, after SSA applies a small subsidy. Typically this is $30-$40. Please bring cash if possible."

Zoom link: 

Topic: SSA Canberra branch meeting
Time: Oct 11, 2022 05:30 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney

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