The Sci-Files – 01/26/2020 – Tyler Derr – Graphs and Deep Learning
January 27, 2020
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On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Tyler Derr.
Tyler is a 5th year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science and Engineering and a member of the Data Science and Engineering Lab. His research is generally focused on data science where he seeks to extract insightful patterns in data that can then be used to both understand/analyze the past and to make predictions about the future. More specifically, due to the fact that much of today’s big data can be represented as graphs, his emphasis has primarily been on harnessing this natural structure of data. In this case, when we mention graphs, we are talking about a collection of objects that have relations between them and can furthermore be associated with a set of features/attributes associated with both the objects and their relations.
An example of a graph can be a social network consisting of online users as the objects, different user relations such as “friends”, “blocked users”, etc., and attributes such as their “likes”. His research is currently focused on how to advance state of the art deep learning approaches (which is an area of machine learning that utilizes artificial neural networks) to harness the graph structure of data. For example, if seeking to categorize the political affiliation of an online user, can we come up with a way of incorporating those you’ve followed (and unfollowed) in a deep learning framework to obtain better predictions.
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Chelsie is a Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. student at Michigan State University. She studies what happens when the bladder is overstretched. Specifically, she is curious about what happens to the extracellular matrix and the metabolism of the cells after they are stretched. She co-hosts an Exposure Series, The Sci-Files with Daniel Puentes. Together they explore the different topics that graduate students study on The Sci-Files at WDBM.
Daniel is a graduate student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, where he does research at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. His research involves measuring the mass of radioactive nuclei, and how it can tell us how protons and neutrons are arranged inside of a nucleus. This research also helps scientists understand how the elements were created in different stellar environments! At WDBM, he and Chelsie Boodoo co-host The Sci-Files.
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