Deep Learning Indaba X Ethiopia 2019

Workshop Schedule

07:30 - 8:30 Registration

8:30 - 09:15 Welcoming speech by Mesfin Bibiso (Ph.D), WSU Research and Community Vice-President

8:16 - 09:30 Opening speech by Takele Tadesse (Ph.D), WSU President

09:31 - 10:30

10:31 - 11:30 Tea break and Poster Presentations

11:31 - 12:30 Mathematics and statistics behind machine learning by Wondimu Woldie (Ph.D)

12:31 - 02:00 Lunch and Networking

2:01 - 3:45 Fundamental of Machine learning by Wondwossen Mulugeta (Ph.D)

3:45 - 4:30 Yabibal (Ph.D)

04:31 - 05:00 Tea break

05:01 - 06:00 Basics of Python and TensorFlow

8:00 - 08:31 Application of machine learning in the context of developing countries by Timnit Gebru (Ph.D)

8:30 - 09:45 Deep Learning and its application by Basiliyos and Julien

09:46 - 10:30 Deep Learning on Multi-Relational Graph Data using Tensor Calculus by Melkamu Beyene (Ph.D)

10:31 - 11:00 Tea break

11:01 - 11:45 Using Search Queries to Understand Health Information Needs in Africa by Rediet Abebe

11:46 - 12:30 Convolution Neural Network (CNN) and its application by Salahadin Seid

12:21 - 02:00 Lunch and poster session

02:01 - 03:30 Hands on Lab -1: Convolution Neural Network (CNN) on MNIST dataset

03:31 - 04:00 Tea break

04:01 - 05:30 Hands on Lab -2: Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) on NLP corpus

8:30 - 09:30 Morphology learning for Under-resourced languages by Tewodros Abebe

09:31 - 10:30 Data Visualization: Advances, challenges and opportunities by Fisseha Gidey

10:31 - 11:10 Tea break

11:11 - 12:30 Panel discussion

12:31 - 01:00 Closing remark by Mesfin Bibiso (Ph.D) WSU Research and Community Vice-President

01:01 - 02:00: Lunch and Visit