Podcasts Technology Datacast Episode 45: Teaching Artificial Intelligence with Amita Kapoor

Episode 45: Teaching Artificial Intelligence with Amita Kapoor

Published: Oct. 21, 2020, 1 p.m.

Show Notes

  • (2:02) Amita described her educational background, studying Electronics at universities back in the 90s. She also professed her love for Asimov’s writings.
  • (3:33) Amita talked about her reason to pursue a path of an academic professor.
  • (5:13) Amita discussed her Ph.D. titled "Modeling, Design, and Applications of Optical Amplifiers and Long Period Gatings” at the University of Dehli and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • (8:38) Amita shared her opinions on how the education of neural networks has evolved in the last 20 years of her teaching career - including the programming language shift from using Fortran and C++ to Python and the importance of learning computer networking and operating systems.
  • (14:29) Amita discussed her research that combines the concepts of social network analysis and neural networks to model user behavior in society (read the full paper here).
  • (17:57) Amita talked about the process of writing the TensorFlow 1.x Deep Learning Cookbook with Antonio Gulli.
  • (21:08) Amita went over TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects, co-authored alongside Ankit Jain and Armando Fandango.
  • (23:19) Amita dived into Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for IoT - which discusses different AI techniques to build smart IoT systems, covering practical case studies in personal & home devices, industrial applications, and smart cities.
  • (27:50) Amita explained the improvements in TensorFlow 2.0 from its previous version, referring to her book Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras - 2nd Edition in collaboration with Antonio Gulli and Sujit Pal.
  • (31:33) Amita went over her experience participating in the NASA Centennial Space Robotics Challenge in 2017, in which her team finished in the top 20 out of more than 100 teams worldwide.
  • (34:49) Amita reflected on her volunteering experience with a group of friends to build an Acute Myeloid Leukemia detection system that won an award for the Intel showcase in 2019.
  • (38:21) Amita unpacked her blog post looking at COVID19 from a data science perspective.
  • (40:26) Amita described her mentoring work at Neuromatch Academy, a non-profit online course in computational neuroscience.
  • (44:19) Amita shared her opinion on the benefits of an online classroom versus an in-person classroom.
  • (51:19) Amita expressed her thoughts on the tech and data community in New Dehli.
  • (52:24) Amita shared her hobby of writing science fiction stories.
  • (53:41) Closing segment.

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