Course Overview:
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of large-scale machine learning and real-time applications in the context of the Healthcare & Life Sciences industries. Participants will learn how to design, implement, and deploy scalable ML systems that can handle massive volumes of data and provide real-time insights for critical decision-making. The course covers distributed computing frameworks, streaming data processing, and optimization techniques for building high-performance AI solutions tailored to the unique challenges and requirements of the healthcare and life sciences domains.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the challenges and opportunities of large-scale ML and real-time applications in the Healthcare & Life Sciences industries
Design and implement distributed ML architectures for processing massive volumes of healthcare and life sciences data
Apply optimization techniques for training large-scale ML models efficiently and cost-effectively
Develop real-time data processing pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and analyzing streaming data from medical devices and sensors
Deploy and manage scalable ML systems in production environments for real-time decision support and personalized healthcare
Course Highlights:
1. Foundations of Large-Scale Machine Learning
Overview of large-scale ML and its applications in the Healthcare & Life Sciences industries
Distributed computing frameworks for big data processing (e.g., Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark)
Data partitioning and parallel processing techniques for ML workloads
Scalable feature engineering and data preprocessing techniques
Hands-on exercises: Setting up a distributed computing environment and processing large-scale healthcare and life sciences datasets
2. Distributed Machine Learning Architectures
Distributed training architectures for machine learning models (e.g., parameter server, ring-allreduce)
Federated learning and its applications in privacy-preserving ML for healthcare data
Model parallelism and data parallelism strategies for training large-scale models
Distributed hyperparameter optimization and model selection techniques
Hands-on exercises: Implementing distributed training for a large-scale ML model on healthcare or life sciences data
3. Real-Time Data Processing and Streaming Analytics
Introduction to real-time data processing and its importance in the Healthcare & Life Sciences industries
Streaming data ingestion and processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Kafka, Apache Flink)
Real-time feature extraction and data transformation techniques
Stateful stream processing and windowing techniques for temporal analysis
Hands-on exercises: Building a real-time data processing pipeline for streaming healthcare or life sciences data
4. Deploying and Managing Large-Scale ML Systems
Architectures for deploying large-scale ML systems in production (e.g., microservices, containerization)
Serverless computing and its applications in real-time ML inference
Monitoring and logging techniques for ensuring the reliability and performance of ML systems
Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for ML models
Hands-on exercises: Deploying a large-scale ML system for real-time decision support in a healthcare or life sciences use case
Prerequisites:
Strong proficiency in programming with Python and familiarity with machine learning frameworks (e.g., scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch)
Understanding of distributed computing concepts and big data technologies (e.g., Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark)
Knowledge of real-time data processing and streaming frameworks (e.g., Apache Kafka, Apache Flink) is beneficial but not required