Welcome to the Machine Learning Research Group! So far, we have 11 students (both sophomores & juniors) joining the group. The goals of the group are to tap into the cutting-edge academic & commercial resources of Artificial Intelligence (AI), follow up the development & trends of the new technologies, acquire the theoretical background and practical skills of machine learning, and apply machine learning algorithms to solve real-world problems.
Most of the early-stage research activities will be focusing on the learning curve of this new technology. It will include
- basic concepts (definition, background, scope, structure, methods & applications)
- neural networks and learning algorithms,
- programming languages & machine learning libraries, and
- brainstorming the potential applications.
The second-stage research activities will be focusing on a few challenging research projects . We will divide our group into a few teams to tackle each challenge. These projects may lead to competitions (such as Google Science Fair), poster presentations in professional conferences (such as IEEE ISEC), publishing of research papers in research journals (such as NHSJS), class projects in Advanced STEM Research (see current STEM course blog), filing patents or commercial applications. Only sky will be the limit!
Most of our "meetings" will be online through the blogs or any electronic media. That's why I have invited all of the group members to be the authors of the Machine Learning blog (http://stem-ml.blogspot.com/). You should contribute to the blog frequently by posting and commenting on new development, video links, programming tutorials, study notes, and research results. You should also visit the blog frequently for information, activities or assignments. The blog will be our main playground for collaboration. If you haven't received the invitation, please let me know as soon as possible. We will also arrange some "meet-up time" at school at everyone's convenience. For our first "kick-off meeting", please use the link to indicate your available time slots. Please response by 8:00 PM (12/06/2015) tonight. If it's hard to find common meeting time for everyone, we will try to meet in subgroups.
In order for our research group to be productive, we will create a few assignments and set some milestones to help everyone pick up the new skills. The first assignment will be about a simple neural network called "Perceptron". The details will be coming soon. In the mean time, please enjoy the videos I have posted in our blog, and share your thoughts or post your notes. These videos will provide you the basic concepts of machine learning. If you come across any good video, please share with us. I hope to meet you all in our kick-off meeting!
Happy Researching!
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