Hi All,

See below announcement for upcoming seminar.  

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From: Giorgio Ascoli <[log in to unmask]> 
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2018 2:59 PM
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Subject: CN3 seminar announcement

Dear Colleagues,
The first CN3 meeting of the 2018/19 academic year will be held this coming Wednesday (8/15) at 10:30 in the Krasnow lecture room - everyone is invited, please pass the information along to your labs, students, and colleagues, thanks!
Giorgio

SPEAKER: Dr. Andrey Gritsenko (Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
TITLE: "Interpretable Machine Learning"

Abstract: In the last decade, applications of machine learning have spread almost across all areas of human activity. However, one of the most powerful ML techniques, artificial neural networks, is still considered as a 'black box' by a large amount of researchers that try to use them. In this talk, Dr. Gritsenko will cover some of his previous work dedicated to increasing the interpretability of results produced by ANN, including obtaining probabilistic outputs for multiclass classification problems and enhancing visualization of high-dimensional data. He will then follow with the discussion of his the most recent project devoted to the zygosity classification of twin pairs and identification of the most heritable human brain regions. 

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Giorgio Ascoli, PhD
University Professor
Bioengineering Department, Volgenau School of Engineering Neuroscience Program, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study Director, Center for Neural Informatics, Structures, & Plasticity
MS2A1 - George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 Ph. +1(703)993-4383/+1(703)673-8894 Author of "Trees of the Brain, Roots of the Mind" (MIT Press, 2015) Founding Editor-in-Chief, Neuroinformatics