ODSC APAC Virtual Conference 2020 | December 8 - 9, 2020

Natural Language Processing Track

Learn the latest models, advancements, and trends from the top practitioners and researchers behind NLP
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NLP has seen rapid advances in recent years. With some of the sharpest minds in data science presenting, get the latest insights, natural language processing training, trends, and discoveries in data science languages, tools, topics – and beyond.

Connect with some of the most innovative people and ideas in the world of data science, while learning first-hand from core practitioners and contributors. Learn about the latest advancements and trends in NLP, including pre-trained models, with use-cases focusing on deep learning, speech-to text, and semantic search.

What You'll Learn

Talks & Workshops on these topics:

Topics

  • Natural Language Processing

  • NLP Transformers

  • Pre-trained Models

  • Text Analytics

  • Natural Language Understanding

  • Sentiment Analysis

  • Natural Language Generation

  • Speech Recognition

  • Named Entity Extraction

Models

  • BERT

  • XLNet

  • GPT-2

  • Transformers

  • Word2Vec

  • Deep Learning Models

  • RNN & LSTM

  • Machine Learning Models

  • ULMFiT

  • Transfer Learning

Tools 

  • Tensorflow 2.0

  • Hugging Face Transformers

  • PyTorch

  • Theano 

  • SpaCy

  • NLTK

  • AllenNLP

  • Stanford CoreNLP

  • Keras

  • FLAIR 

ODSC APAC Virtual Conference 2020 | December 8 - 9, 2020

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Some Current Speakers

Head of Analytics and AI | APAC AmbassadorTeacher's Health and Women in AI

Angela Kim

Angela is an AI Professional specialized in Ethics, Explainability, Diversity & Inclusion in AI and recipient of Top 10 Analytics Leaders 2020 From Institute of Analytics Professional Australia and also sits on the Founding Editorial Board of Springer’s new & timely AI and Ethics Journal.
Angela has been working with Insurance Australia Group, Macquarie Group, Microsoft, and Salesforce to provide AI outreach programs for high schools and also Technology Literacy programs for USYD, UNSW, UTS, and Macquarie University Business female students for 100 Girls 100 Futures Workshop.
In 2018, Angela and her team won the Data Science & AI National Industry Innovation Awards for “Best Industry Application of AI for AI & Data-driven Underwriting Engine” through a collaborative ANZ Wealth (Zurich Insurance) & the University of Technology of Sydney project. Angela works with STEM class in high school, Women in Business in major universities in Sydney, and Women in technology at Macquarie Group to promote Diversity and Inclusion in technology and Ethics, Fairness and Responsibility in AI.

How to Operationalize Ethics in Data and AI(Talk)

Head of Machine Learning & Data ScienceVahan

Anuj Gupta, PhD

Anuj Gupta is a head the Machine Learning and Data Science teams at Vahan. Prior to this, he was heading ML efforts for Intuit, Huawei Technologies, Freshworks, Chennai, and Airwoot, Delhi. He did his masters in theoretical computer science from IIIT Hyderabad and he dropped out of his Ph.D. from IIT Delhi to work with startups.
He is a regular speaker at ML conferences like Pydata, Nvidia forums, Fifth Elephant, Anthill. He has also conducted a bunch of workshops attended by machine learning practitioners. He is also the co-organizer for one of the early Deep Learning meetups in Bangalore.  He is also the Editor of “Anthill-2018” – deep learning-focused conference by HasGeek.

Data Augmentation for NLP(Talk)

Research ScientistAmerican Express AI Labs

Piyush Arora, PhD

Piyush Arora is a Research Scientist with American Express AI Labs, Bangalore, India since September 2019. Before joining American Express,  he was a Post-Doctoral researcher with the ADAPT Centre, Dublin, Ireland. He completed  PhD in computer science in August 2018 from Dublin City University, Ireland. 
His areas of interest are Information Extraction and Retrieval, Machine Learning, User Search Behavior, Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis, and Deep Learning.
During his PhD, he worked in the area of Interactive Information Retrieval, towards developing novel solutions for improving the overall search experience and user learning.  Mainly focused on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning techniques and tools and their application for different tasks, domains, and languages.
He is interested in learning and exploring more on how to use technology to bring changes at the root level, especially focusing on education and human learning, how can we make better societies and ecosystem with the use of technology. He believes “Guided Technology” can play an important role in the path towards a global sustainable world.

Natural Language Querying for Industry Grade Data Analytics Systems(Talk)

Machine Learning EngineerVahan Inc

Piyush Makhija

Piyush is a graduate from Georgia Institute of Technology and is currently working as an NLP Engineer at vahan.ai. After passing out from IITR with a Bachelors’s in ECE, he started out his career as a 4G protocol engineer but soon got attracted towards the fast-growing ML/AI domain. Over time he switched over to this domain and, after some exploration, found his interest in working with vernacular languages.

Normalizing User-Generated Text Data(Talk)


Some Previous Speakers

Chief Science OfficerHugging Face 🤗

Thomas Wolf, PhD

Thomas leads the Science Team at Huggingface Inc., a Brooklyn-based startup working on Natural Language Generation and Natural Language Understanding.

After graduating from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris, France), he worked on laser-plasma interactions at the BELLA Center of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA). Got accepted for a PhD at MIT (Cambridge, MA) but ended up doing his PhD in Statistical/Quantum physics at Sorbonne University and ESPCI (Paris, France), working on superconducting materials for the French DARPA (DGA) and Thales.

Thomas is interested in Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, and Computational Linguistics. Much of his research is about Natural Language Generation (mostly) and Natural Language Understanding (as a tool for better generation).

An Introduction to Transfer Learning in NLP and HuggingFace Tools(Workshop)

Senior Data Scientist, InstructorMetis

Kimberly Fessel, PhD

Kimberly Fessel is a Senior Data Scientist at Metis, the industry’s only accredited, full-time, immersive data science bootcamp. Prior to joining Metis as an instructor, Kimberly worked in digital advertising at MRM//McCann where she focused on helping clients understand their customers by leveraging unstructured data with modern NLP techniques. She holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and completed an NSF-funded postdoctoral fellowship in math biology at the Ohio State University. She is passionate about data visualization and about harnessing the power of language to tell compelling data stories.

Level Up: Fancy NLP with Straightforward Tools (Talk)

Principal Data ScientistLinc Global

Joan Xiao, PhD

Joan Xiao is a Principal Data Scientist at Linc Global, a commerce-specialized customer care automation company. In her role, she applies novel natural language processing and machine learning techniques to improve customer experience. Previously she led machine learning and data science teams at various companies ranging from startup to Fortune 100. Joan received her Ph.D in Mathematics and MS in Computer Science from University of Pennsylvania.

Transfer Learning in NLP(Talk)

Head of AI EngineeringBloomberg

Dr. Anju Kambadur

Dr. Prabhanjan (Anju) Kambadur heads the AI Engineering group at Bloomberg. Anju leads a group of 100+ researchers and engineers who build solutions for Bloomberg clients in the areas of machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) and natural language understanding, information extraction, knowledge graphs, question answering, and table understanding. Previously, Anju was a research staff member in the Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences Department at IBM Research’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he worked on problems in machine learning, such as matrix sketching, genome-wide association studies, temporal causal modeling, and high-performance computing. He received his PhD from Indiana University. Anju has published peer-reviewed articles in the fields of high-performance computing, machine learning, and natural language processing.

AI Research at Bloomberg(Talk)


Why Attend

Several of the best minds and biggest names in data science will be presenting

Network with attendees from leading data science companies to learn how others are tackling similar problems

Gain quality training in the hottest data science topics, tools, and languages

Learn the latest in data science from industry leaders without having to make room in the budget — tickets are surprisingly inexpensive

Who will attend

  • Some of the world’s best data science speakers

  • The brains and authors behind today’s most popular open data science tools, topics, and languages

  • Hundreds of attendees focused on data science

  • Chief Data Scientists

  • Thought leaders working in data science

  • Data Scientists and Analysts

  • Software Developers

  • CEOs, CTOs, CIOs

  • Data Visualization professionals

  • Venture Capitalists and Investors

  • Startup Founders and Executives

  • Attendees from Healthcare, Finance, Education, Business, Intelligence, and other industries

  • Big data and data science innovators

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