The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (PSG ITAR), in association with the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) Students' Chapter, organized an online guest lecture titled "Machine Learning and Algorithms" on 7th July, 2021 (Wednesday).
Ms. Madhuri Gopal, an expert mentor in the field of Machine learning, Data Science and Natural language Processing (NLP) participated as the chief guest and shared her rich decade-long work experience after serving in various top-notch R&D companies. Her session commenced with a detailed introduction to machine learning and explicated the three types of learning methods. Also, she explained the mathematical theories behind the major algorithms and shared some experiential use cases for the same such as recommendation engine, medical diagnosis, speech recognition, NLP applications like text mining and statistical arbitrage. In addition, python snippets for some of the algorithms were also discussed. Around 80 students and 20 faculty members across the circuit branches participated in the online lecture.