Dear Esteemed Members,

You may be glad to know that IEEE CIS Kolkata Chapter is organizing a IEEE CIS DLP with Prof. Saman Halgamuge, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering of School of Electrical, Mechanical and Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Event date: 6th May, 2019

Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM

Title of talk: Unsupervised Deep Learning meets Bioinformatics and Neural Engineering

Location: RCC Institute of information Technology, Kolkata, India

Abstract of the talk: We have been working on the application of Computational Intelligence (CI) in invitroneuronal network behaviour patterns that can be used to cluster drugs for brain deceases and in applications in Metagenomics. In lab experiments involving multiple drugs applied to live brain tissues, vast amount of data can be generated using Multiple Electrode Array (MEA) technology.
We use an extended version of Self Organizing Map (SOM), which is one of the widely used Unsupervised Neural Networks. It has the ability to map high dimensional characteristics or data from multiple drugs into a two dimensional feature map, which is expected to be topology preserving allowing users to visually identify clusters. Our extended methods including Growing Self Organizing Maps (GSOM) further allow the map size to be determined by the algorithm, which relies upon a user set parameter called “Spread Factor” (SF). Using GPU compatible implementation of GSOM, we can vary SF and obtain multiple GSOMs from a small number of compact clusters to a large number of sparse clusters.

You are requested to make it convenient to attend the DLP. We hope that the event will help to gain valuable insights into the rapidly emerging field of deep learning and its applications to Bioinformatics.

Best regards,

Secretary

IEEE CIS Kolkata Chapter