Track / Overview

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a rapidly growing field with tremendous potential for improving machine learning pipelines, unboxing the most intricate deep networks, and creating new geometric features from data.

Since the knowledge barrier that protects TDA might scare some data scientists, the purpose of this track is not only to showcase TDA as a complementary tool to machine learning, but also to lower this barrier and make TDA more intuitive and accessible.

The speakers of this track are all renowned leaders in the topics they present; dynamical system analysis using TDA, analysis of deep networks with TDA, feature engineering via TDA, data visualisation and dimensionality reduction are the main topics discussed in this track.

Track / Schedule

Introduction of the track

With Martin Jaggi

Opening remarks

With Kathryn Hess Bellwald

The representation theory of neural networks

With Marco Armenta

Level-set persistence and Sheaf Theory

With Nicolas Berkouk

Multiparameter persistence for mortals

With Bryn Keller

Coffee break

Topology and Machine Learning

With Rickard Brüel-Gabrielsson

Scalable Topological Data Analysis and Visualisation of Evaluating Data-Driven Models in Scientific Applications

With Shusen Liu

Coffee break

Quantifying the shape of time series with TDA and Network-based methods

With Elizabeth Munch

Panel discussion

Conclusion

Track / Speakers

Martin Jaggi

Professor, EPFL

Kathryn Hess Bellwald

Professor, EPFL

Marco Armenta

Postdoctoral fellow, University of Sherbrooke

Nicolas Berkouk

Post-Doctoral Researcher, EPFL

Elizabeth Munch

Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

Bryn Keller

Research Scientist, Intel Labs

Rickard Brüel-Gabrielsson

PhD, MIT

Shusen Liu

Research Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Track / Co-organizers

Kathryn Hess Bellwald

Professor, EPFL

Matteo Caorsi

Chief Scientist, L2F SA

AMLD EPFL 2021 / Tracks & talks

Anticipating the future of artificial intelligence and its impact on people and on society

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13:30-17:00 May 10Online

AI & Topology

Martin Jaggi, Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Marco Armenta, Nicolas Berkouk, Elizabeth Munch, Bryn Keller, Rickard Brüel-Gabrielsson, Shusen Liu

18:00-22:00 May 10Online

AI & the response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Miguel Luengo-Oroz, Nuria Oliver, Caroline Buckee, Effy Vayena

09:00-17:00 June 28

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