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“Dialogs and Data Science” (DSI Dinner Event)

Nanotechnology Triplex Building 206, BIU Campus, Auditorium 50

This event is over. Link to  event page - http://dsi.biu.ac.il/events/dinner-nov-2017 Media: Link to videos and photos coming soon. Post Event Stats: 86 people registered to the event. Following stats based on registration information. (actual attendance may be different!). Dept. Breakdown And the winner is: Life Sciences ! Position Breakdown Half are faculty! Registration Email Invitations sent ... Read more

How should we use domain knowledge in the era of deep learning? (A perspective from speech processing)

CS colloquium Building 216 room 201

Deep neural networks are the new default machine learning approach in many domains, such as computer vision, speech processing, and natural language processing. Given sufficient data for a target task, end-to-end models can be learned with fairly simple, almost universal algorithms. Such models learn their own internal representations, which in many cases appear to be ... Read more

Learning Club talk by Prof. Masashi Sugiyama

RIKEN – Japan’s top national research institute – opened RIKEN AIP, the research center dedicated for Artificial Intelligence. Prof. Masashi Sugiyama, the center’s director is visiting Israel and will be giving a talk at Bar Ilan as part of the DSI Learning Club. Details to follow soon.

DSI Tutorial

Building 504, room 5

Demo of data science tools in Machine Learning, Network Science and Text Analysis http://dsi.biu.ac.il/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/DSI_Tutorial_Jan_2018.pdf DSI_Tutorial_Jan_2018  

Law and Networks

הפקולטה למשפטים, בנין ,306אוניברסיטת בר-אילן הפקולטה למשפטים, בנין ,306אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, Ramat Ran, Israel

conference on Law and Networks at Bar Ilan. See below link to pdf with details Note: Session 11 including presentation by Prof. Oren Perez, Prof. Judit Bar-Ilan and Prof. Arie Reich. http://dsi.biu.ac.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ILSA-conf-2018-a.pdf

Adversarial Learning Workshop

Security and Privacy in Machine Learning Nicolas Papernot, Penn State University There is growing recognition that machine learning exposes new security and privacy issues in software systems. In this talk, we first articulate a comprehensive threat model for machine learning, then present an attack against model prediction integrity, and finally discuss a framework for learning ... Read more

WEKA Hands On Workshop

Building 504, room 5

סדנא יישומית לסיווג וניתוח אשכולות Classification & Clustering    יועבר ע"י פרופ' רועי גלברד עבודה בסדנאות תעשה על המחשבים האישיים של המשתתפים. :לנוכח אופיין המיוחד הסדנאות מוגבלות ל30 משתתפים, נא הקדימו והירשמו. http://dsi.biu.ac.il/events/hands_on_tutorial_registration-feb-2018 :מומלץ לצפות בסרטון הבא לפני הסדנא מכון מדע הנתונים: הדגמת שימוש בכלי ניתוח "ידידותיים" - סיווג וניתוח אשכולות, פרופ' רועי גלברד   להורדת  ... Read more

Elasticsearch and Kibana Hands-on Workshop for Law

Faculty of Law Building 306, room 200 Faculty of Law Building 306, room 200, Israel

Hands on Tutorial targeted for Law Faculty and Grad Students. Conducted by Dr. Jonathan Schler. Link to Elastic Dashboard: http://bit.ly/2BOspDE slides: DSI - Text Analysis - Elastic

Gephi Hands on workshop

Building 504, room 5

Network Analysis סדנא יישומית לניתוח רשתות   יועבר ע"י מר עוזי חרוש עבודה בסדנאות תעשה על המחשבים האישיים של המשתתפים. :לנוכח אופיין המיוחד הסדנאות מוגבלות ל30 משתתפים, נא הקדימו והירשמו. http://dsi.biu.ac.il/events/hands_on_tutorial_registration-feb-2018 :מומלץ לצפות בסרטון הבא לפני הסדנא מכון מדע הנתונים: הדגמת שימוש בכלי ניתוח "ידידותיים" - ניתוח רשתות, פרופ' ראובן כהן    

Elastic Search & Kibana Hands on workshop

Building 504, room 5

Computer Aided Text Analysis סדנא יישומית ל ניתוח ממוחשב של טקסט   יועבר ע"י ד"ר יהונתן שלר :מומלץ לצפות בסרטון הבא לפני הסדנא מכון מדע הנתונים: הדגמת שימוש בכלי ניתוח "ידודותיים" - ניתוח ממוחשב של טקסט, ד"ר יהונתן שלר  DSI - Text Analysis - Elastic2 :קישור למצגת   :dashboardקישור ל http://dsi.biu.ac.il/kibana-tutorial-13-3-18         עבודה בסדנאות תעשה ... Read more

Big Data in Science and Faith

המכון הגבוה לתורה, בר-אילן

Algorithms and Nature Law without Law Automation, Responsibility and Identity Different Scales - From the Nano to the Cosmological

Distilling Relevant Information to Support Human-Human and Human-Agent Collaboration (Ofra Amir, DSI Learning Club)

Gonda Building (901), Room 101

Ofra Amir (Faculty, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology). Distilling relevant information to support human-human and human-agent collaboration Abstract: One of today's biggest challenges is the heightened complexity and information overload stemming from increasingly interacting systems, consisting of both humans and machines. In this talk, I will describe work that aims to address this challenge in ... Read more

Synthesis and Cloning Human Voices (Eliya Nachmani, DSI Learning Club)

Gonda Building (901), Room 101

Mar 22nd, Thu 10:00 , Eliya Nachmani. Tel-Aviv University / Facebook AI Research (PhD Student). Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. Synthesis and Cloning Human Voices Abstract: Text to speech (TTS) is able to transform text to speech. In this talk we present a new neural TTS for voices that are sampled in the wild. ... Read more

יום פתוח לתארים מתקדמים באוניברסיטת בר אילן ביום חמישי, ו’ בניסן, 22 במרץ 2018 ב-20:00-16:00

מתחם הפקולטה להנדסה

בואו ליום הפתוח לתארים מתקדמים באוניברסיטת בר אילן, שיתקיים ביום חמישי, ו' בניסן, 22 במרץ 2018 ב-20:00-16:00 במתחם הפקולטה להנדסה נציגי מכון מדעי הנתונים יהיו במקום כדי לפגוש אתכם, לתת לכם מידע על מסלולי הלימודים ולהשיב לכל שאלה. לרשותכם מערך היסע פנימי (שאטל) סובב קמפוס :לפרטים ראו https://www1.biu.ac.il/openDay2018    

Data Science Platform

חדר ישיבות גולן, משרדי מטריקס

The Role of Minimal Complexity Functions in Unsupervised Learning of Semantic Mappings (Tomer Galanti, DSI Learning Club)

Gonda Building (901), Room 101

Tomer Galanti (PhD Student, Tel Aviv University) The Role of Minimal Complexity Functions in Unsupervised Learning of Semantic Mappings Abstract: We discuss the feasibility of the following learning problem: given unmatched samples from two domains and nothing else, learn a mapping between the two, which preserves semantics. Due to the lack of paired samples and without ... Read more

High-Order Attention Models for Visual Question Answering (Idan Schwartz, DSI Learning Club)

Gonda Building (901), Room 101

Apr 26th, Thu 10:00 , Idan Schwartz (webpage). Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (PhD Student). Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. High-Order Attention Models for Visual Question Answering Abstract: The quest for algorithms that enable cognitive abilities is an important part of machine learning. A common trait in many recently investigated cognitive-like tasks is ... Read more

Challenges in social advertisement networks

Building 216 room 201

Special Applied math seminar - Thursday, Apr. 26, at 14:00, in the Math Department seminar room. This week's seminar will host a special guest from StartApp - a Mobile Technology Company *** May be of interest to the the broader data-oriented public *** Dr. Shlomi Beer StartApp   Challenges in social advertisement networks Social networks have been ... Read more

Talking to your Virtual Assistant about anything by  Jonathan Berant (DSI Learning Club)

Gonda Building 901, Room 101

On Thursday, May 3rd, we are hosting Jonathan Berant from TAU.   Title: Talking to your Virtual Assistant about anything When: May 3rd, Thu 10:15. Light refreshments at 10:00. Where: Gonda Building 901, Room 101 Abstract: Conversational interfaces and virtual assistants are now part of our lives due to services such as Amazon Alexa, Google Voice, Microsoft Cortana, etc. Thus, translating natural language queries and commands ... Read more

AWSome day

Building 216, room 252

סדנא טכנית להיכרות עם שירותי הענן של AWS נקבעה ל- 6 למאי.   הסדנא תתקיים באגף התקשוב (בניין 216) בכיתת ההדרכה 252. הארוע מאורגן ע"יי נועם נודלמן ממרכז המחשבים.   סדר היום של הסדנא: 09:45-10:00 – קבלת פנים 10:00-10:45 – היכרות עם AWS 10:45-12:00 – הסבר לגבי שירותים בסיסיים של AWS (VPC, EC2, EBS, S3, IAM) 12:00-13:00 – תרגול ראשון ... Read more

Law & Big Data

Faculty of Law Building 306, room 200 Faculty of Law Building 306, room 200

Bar-Ilan University The Fund for the Advancement of Humanities and Social Sciences in Israel Workshop on Law & Big Data May 14-15, 2018 Faculty of Law Building 306, room 200 http://dsi.biu.ac.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Law-Big-Data-conf-final.pdf Law & Big Data conf final  

Learning Common Sense: a Grand Challenge for Academic AI Research by Oren Etzioni (IEEE student workshop)

Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Engineering, Hall 02

** Note: This event is canceled! ** Title of talk:  Learning Common Sense: a Grand Challenge for Academic AI Research   Speaker: Prof. Oren Etzioni,  Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence   Abstract: In a world where Google, Facebook, and others possess massive proprietary data sets, and unprecedented computational power---how is a graduate student to make a dent in ... Read more

DSI Dinner – May 24 2018

Nanotechnology Triplex Building 206, BIU Campus, Auditorium 50

The Bar-Ilan Data Science institute (DSI) is glad to invite you to its bi-annual dinner event. The event is open to all BIU researchers interested in data science including faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students.   When: May 24th, 17:45 -- 20:30 Where: Nanotechnology Triplex, Building 206, BIU Campus, Auditorium 50   Schedule: 17:45 Gathering ... Read more

DIY Classification & Dear Data Scientist, Label Data or Die (News, Economics and AI meetup)

Thomson-Reuters offices Park Ofer, 94 Derech Em Hamoshavot Oren Building (Building 6), entrance level floor · Petakh Tiqwa Park Ofer, 94 Derech Em Hamoshavot, Petakh Tiqwa, Israel

A News, Economics and AI meetup 18:00-18:30 gathering + pizza 18:30-19:00 "DIY Classification" by Ehud Azikri and Lior Weintraub 19:00-20:15 "Dear Data Scientist, Label Data or Die" by Tal Perry see meetup page for full details: http://meetu.ps/e/Fhrpb/1b3Yc/f

On the Expressive Power of ConvNets and RNNs as a Function of their Architecture by Or Sharir (DSI Learning Club)

Gonda Building (901), Room 101.

May 31st, Thu 10:00 , Or Sharir (webpage). The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PhD Student) Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. On the Expressive Power of ConvNets and RNNs as a Function of their Architecture Abstract: The driving force behind convolutional and recurrent networks — two of the most successful deep learning architectures to date ... Read more

Learning to Act from Observational Data: Machine Learning and Causal Inference in Healthcare by Uri Shalit (Technion) – DSI Learning Club

Gonda Building (901), Room 101.

June 7th, Thu 10:00 , Uri Shalit (webpage). Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Faculty). Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. Learning to Act from Observational Data: Machine Learning and Causal Inference in Healthcare Abstract: The proliferation of data collection in the health, commercial, and economic spheres, brings with it opportunities for extracting new knowledge ... Read more

Detecting and Correcting for Label Shift with Black Box Predictors by Zachary Chase Lipton (DSI Learning Club)

Gonda Building (901), Room 101.

June 11th, Mon. 11:00 , Zachary Chase Lipton (webpage). Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. Detecting and Correcting for Label Shift with Black Box Predictors Abstract: Faced with distribution shift between training and test set, we wish to detect and quantify the shift, and to correct our classifiers without test set ... Read more

The Intel AI Lab – Learning Club Talk by Yinyin Liu (TBD)

Yinyin Liu, Head of Data Science, Intel AIPG will be visiting biu on June 13 and will be able to give a talk about the Intel AI Lab. Possible times are 10-11, 11-12 or 12-13. Please let us know what works for you by filling the following doodle: https://doodle.com/poll/ty6rep3r7ybptffa Yinyin Liu, Head of Data Science, Intel ... Read more

A Provably Correct Algorithm for Deep Learning that Actually Works by Eran Malach (DSI Learning Club)

Gonda Building (901), Room 101.

June 14th, Thu 10:00 , Eran Malach (webpage). The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PhD Student) Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. A Provably Correct Algorithm for Deep Learning that Actually Works Abstract: We describe a layer-by-layer algorithm for training deep convolutional networks, where each step involves gradient updates for a two layer network followed by ... Read more

Embedding-based Term Sets & Dynamic Ontologies (News, Economics and AI meetup)

Thomson-Reuters offices Park Ofer, 94 Derech Em Hamoshavot Oren Building (Building 6), entrance level floor · Petakh Tiqwa Park Ofer, 94 Derech Em Hamoshavot, Petakh Tiqwa, Israel

A News, Economics and AI meetup 18:00-18:15 gathering + pizza 18:15-19:00: SetExpander: End-to-end Term Set Expansion based on Multi-Context Term Embeddings * by Moshe Wasserblat * 19:00-20:00: Sluglines -- a Dynamic News Ontology * by Shai Hertz * see meetup page for full details: https://www.meetup.com/News-Economics-and-AI/events/252556709/

AI Satellite Resolution

building 505, room 201

שיפור רזולוציה של טמפרטורת הקרקע מלוויין בעזרת כלים ואלגוריתמים מתחום למידת מכונה http://dsi.biu.ac.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ai-satellite_resolution.pdf ai-satellite_resolution

Data Science Environmental Applications – Government and Academia workshop

Nanotechnology Triplex Building 206, BIU Campus, Auditorium 50

כנס יישומים סביבתיים של מדעי הנתונים 23.10.18 (ארוע עבר) :תכנית הכנס 1 2 3 ניסיון dsi_gov_env_event_program מושב פתיחה ד"ר חיים כץ. אגף איכות מים, רשות המים פרופ' עידו דגן ראש המכון למדעי הנתונים, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן מבוא למדעי הנתונים – הפקת תובנות ושיפור תהליכי עבודה בהתבסס על מאגרי נתונים ממשלתיים ד"ר אורן גליקמן מנהל המכון למדעי הנתונים, ... Read more

News, Economics and AI meetup — Latest Research by the Bar-Ilan NLP Lab. (slides available)

Gonda Building (901), Room 101.

Details This meeting will feature the BIU NLP Lab. Lab leaders Ido Dagan and Yoav Goldberg will tell us about current developments in their work. Some more bits of recent research will be introduced by Lab's senior grad students. Agenda: 18:00-18:20: gathering + pizzas 18:20-18:50: Prof. Ido Dagan: Extracting and Exploring Open Textual Knowledge (slides) 18:50-19:00: ... Read more