Plan of Study (Fall 2019) @ Virginia Tech DLRL
September
Paper Reading:
- Q-Learning
- Recurrent Neural Networks
Get Familiar With:
- Markov Models (as well as Hidden Variants)
- Neural Networks
- Cloud Machine Learning Pipelines (likely AWS)
October
Paper Reading:
- Additional papers on Recurrent Neural Networks as advised by Dr. Xuan.
Goals & Implementation:
- Jupyter/Colaboratory Notebooks
- Basics of Tensorflow
- Introduction to Markov Models
Goals & Implementation
- Whitepaper: Machine Learning Pipelines on AWS
- Nominal demonstration of a Deep Learning Pipeline from Data Collection to usable Intelligence.
November
Paper Reading
- Additional papers on Recurrent Neural Networks as advised by Dr. Xuan, with more of a frame on applications
Goals & Implementation
- Whitepaper: Machine Learning Data Engineering for Biology
- A Systems-level approach on identifying and tackling a Biology problem with Machine Learning
- Discussion points on HIPAA compliance for Bio-companies and universities when operating in this space.
December
Goals & Implementation
- Nominal Implementation of the Biology Machine Learning Framework
- Approaches and considerations to gathering Data
- Identifying the problem and how to determine what ML methodologies to tackle them
- How to make your models scalable, available, and secure to stakeholders