Prof Sujit K Sahu

          

   

Venue: Room 5027 (5A) in the Maths Building (Number 54)
Programme

Course 1: Bayesian modelling and computation
Programme on June 11, Monday.
9AM--9:30AM Welcome and Registration
9:30AM--12:30PM Morning Sessions
Coffee Break 11--11:30AM Session 1. Intro to Bayesian methods
Session 2. Bayesian computation
12:30PM-1:30PM Lunch Break
1:30PM -4:30PM Afternoon Sessions
Tea Break: 3--3:30PM Session 3. Introduction to Gibbs sampling and WinBugs
Session 4. Practical Issues in MCMC.
Course 1: Programme on June 12, Tuesday.
9:30AM--12:30PM Morning Sessions
Coffee Break 11--11:30AM Session 5. Bayesian model comparison
Session 6. Hands on coding of MCMC
12:30PM-1:30PM Lunch Break
1:30PM -4:30PM Afternoon Sessions
Tea Break: 3--3:30PM Session 7. Bayesian hierarchical modelling.
Session 8. Other computing packages: STAN and INLA.
One-on-one and group brainstorming sessions with the instructors where participants can discuss modelling their own data sets.
Participants can depart at 4:30PM.
Course 2: Statistical Machine Learning
Programme on June 13, Wednesday.
9--9:30AM
9:30AM--12:30PM Morning Sessions
Coffee Break 11--11:30AM 1. Supervised Learning
2. Regression – Multicollinearity, Variable selection, Regularisation, LASSO prior, Ridge prior, Elastic Net prior
12:30PM-1:30PM Lunch Break
1:30PM -4:30PM Afternoon Sessions
Tea Break: 3--3:30PM 1. Non-linear regression - Gaussian Process Prior Regression
2. Practical session.
Course 2: Programme on June 14, Thursday.
9:30AM--12:30PM Morning Sessions
Coffee Break 11--11:30AM 1. Classification
2. Naive Bayes classifier, Discriminant Analysis, logistic regression.
12:30PM-1:30PM Lunch Break
1:30PM -4:30PM Afternoon Sessions
Tea Break: 3--3:30PM 1. Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, Perceptron Learning, Neural Network, Deep Learning.
2. Participants can discuss their own modelling problems with the instructors.
Course 2: Programme on June 15, Friday.
9:30AM--12:30PM Morning Sessions
Coffee Break 11--11:30AM 1. Algorithms – Gradient Descent, Stochastic Gradient Descent, Back Propagation
2. Hands on session.
12:30PM-1:30PM Lunch Break
1:30PM -4:30PM Afternoon Sessions
Tea Break: 3--3:30PM 1. Unsupervised learning.
2. K-means clustering, Principal Component Analysis and Latent Dirichlet Analysis.
Participants can depart at 4:30PM.