Seminar 10th December 2015 10 a.m. 58/1007
Invited Lecture - Data Science, Drones, and Digital Humanitarianism
Dirk Gorissen
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- Categories
- Human population, Machine learning
- Submitter
- Christopher Brooks
An Invited Lecture by Dr Dirk Gorissen - Data Science, Drones, and Digital Humanitarianism
In this digital age, contributing to society or engaging in development is no longer synonymous with handing out soup or installing water pumps. Running hackathons, doing data dives, labeling tweets, and flying drones have added to the options. However, how useful are they really and will big data actually "solve the worlds biggest issues"? This talk will not attempt to give answers, but rather share experiences from projects across machine learning & data science, unmanned systems, citizen reporting and GIS.
Speaker Bio
Dirk Gorissen holds Masters degrees in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and a PhD in Computational Engineering. He has worked in research labs in the US, Canada, Europe & Africa and worked with a large range of industrial partners, including: Rolls-Royce, BMW, Arcelor Mittal, NXP, and Airbus. His interests span machine learning, data science, and computational engineering. Particularly in the unmanned systems domains. After eight years he left academia to join BAE Systems Research where he worked on big data analysis, deep learning, Integrated Vehicle Health Management and autonomous systems related topics. He then left to work for himself, dividing his time between The World Bank (where he advises the Tanzanian Government), UAV startup Skycap (where he leads the R&D activities), and a number of startups. In addition he is an active STEM Ambassador, organiser of the London Big-O Algorithms & Machine Learning meetups, and is active in the Tech4Good / ICT4D space.
If you have any questions or queries, please contact Chris Brooks on C.J.Brooks@soton.ac.uk