Sequential Data Modeling with Keras

Module 1 Word Embedding

• One Hot Encoding of Words
• Word Embedding
• Pre-Trained Word Embedding

Module 2 RNN and LSTM

• Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)
• Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) and GRU
• Stacked RNN
• Bidirectional RNN
• Case Studies on Time Series Prediction with LSTM

Module 3 1D Convolution

• 1D Convolution on Sequential Data
• Combining 1D Convolution and RNN

Module 4 Sequence To Sequence Model

• What is Seq2Seq Model
• Attention Mechanism

Prerequisite

This is a intermediate course. Participants should have basic knowledge on the following subjects:

• Python
• Keras
• Machine Learning

Software Requirement

We will use Google Colab for this training. Google Colab is a free Jupyter Notebook like software that provides free GPU for model training.

Please follow the instruction below to install Google Colab on your Google Drive

https://medium.com/deep-learning-turkey/google-colab-free-gpu-tutorial-e113627b9f5d

• Data Scientists
• Data Analysts
• Engineers

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Dr. Alfred Ang earned his Ph.D. from National University of Singapore in 2000, majoring in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He also completed an online MBA course with U21 Global based in Australia. He obtained his B.Sc (Hons) from National University of Singapore in 1992, majoring in Physics. He topped his Physics cohort for 3 consecutive years and funded his degree study with Book prizes, Study awards, bursaries and tuition. He has worked in Defence, Electronics and Semiconductor Industries. His current interests include Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Robotics and Programming.

Dr. Alfred Ang was Distinguished Toastmasters (DTM) and Senior Member of IEEE. He has published more than 20 peer reviewed papers and co-inventors for more than 20 inventions.

Wee Chee Hong is a veteran consultant in the field of Engineering Design. He has over 20 years experience in electronics/ IT industry with several MNCs including Compaq, Adaptec, Agilent, etc., with specialization in Automation System Design (drilling/ milling machine, 3D machine automation, machine data collection, test & measurement electronics design), Motion control design & applications. With wide technical skill set in development language/ tools .Net, Java, PowerBuilder to C++/ C/C#, he has also strong knowledge in development of firmware for microcontroller such as PIC, ARM and others.

Chee Hong graduated with a B.Eng degree in Electrical Electronics Engineering and holds a Master Degree of Technology from NUS.

Joel Foo graduated with a major in statistics and minor in computer science from NUS. He is well-versed in R and Python libraries/packages and has applied knowledge of statistics in data mining, time series analysis and deep learning. As the Business Intelligence Lead in an Israeli startup, Joel has experience in using BI tools such as Tableau to perform drill downs and harness insights from data. Currently, he is the co-founder and CEO of Geboto, a chatbot centric CRM platform for hospitality and F&B.

Dr. Ravi Kumar Tiwari got his PhD from NUS (Chemical Engineering) in 2013. After graduation, he worked 3 years as a research scientist in the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC). He is currently a big data R data analyst in Rakuten. His core skills are R, big data, Hadoop and machine learning.

Dr. Sudipta Samanta received his Ph.D. for his research in the field of computational Biophysics in 2009. He has more than 9 years research experience as a scientist. His current interests include Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Health Care Data analysis, and computer simulation. He is also the founder of "Baby Lion Organic medicinal Farm".

Johnson Ang has a Masters in IT Analytics from SMU and is certified and a member of GARP, CQF andFSM. He has more than 8 years of working experience, of which 4 years of experience in the Banking Wide Operations and has been particularly involved in mega IT Analytic banking projects within the Risk Management and Financial Instrument sphere.

He can offer varied solid perspectives and has experience working with folks from all sorts of background, such as Developers, Traders/Dealers, CxOs, Programmers, Project Managers, Auditors, Head/Country Directors, Regulators, RMs, which is particularly during his stint in the Front, Middle and Back Office, as well as industry such as Real Estate, FMCG, Construction and Education Sector.

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Pushparaj Murugan has more than five years of research experiences in Industrial automation. He is specialized in Python libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, SciKit-Learn, Tensorflow, Keras, Theano, etc. He had his experience working for Caterpiller inc. in developing a user interface using Matlab programming combining finite element analysis. In addition, he also worked for ARDB (Aeronautical Research and Development Board) and DRDO ( Defence Research and Development Organisation) in India on various research projects. He is currently doing his research at Nanyang technological university for Rolls Royce intelligence manufacturing section. He is working on automation of robotic abrasive belt grinding process using deep learning frameworks such as CNN and LSTM.

Dr. Yongxin (Steve) has more than five years of solid industrial and research experiences in data analytics. He held PdD on operations research in National University of Singapore. After his Phd study, he worked as data analyst and scientist in manufacturing and commodity trading companies. He is specialized in analyzing, visualizing and mining complex time series data using Python tools sucha as Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib, SK-Learn, Tensorflow etc. He did research on predictive analytics on various systems e.g., Forex and commodity trading, system performance prediction, machine maintenance, etc. Besides data analytics using Python, he also extended his expertise in Microsoft Excel VBA, Hadoop big data platforms such as AWS and Microsoft Azure. In addition, he is strong in mathematical modelling and has cross-disciplinary domain knowledge in operations research, currency and commodity trading and industrial automation.

Ming Liang is an up-and-coming developer with expertise ranging from deep learning to hardware like the raspberry pi. He specialises mostly in the area of data science and machine learning and has won several hackathons and is ranked highly in international competitions. Furthermore, he has also done projects as part of the maker community in Singapore and build his own 3D printer as well