Mandela Patrick

Harvard / Oxford / Researcher @ Facebook London

Mandela is a Rhodes Scholar, second-year PhD student at Oxford University in Visual Geometry Group (VGG) group and student researcher at Facebook AI Research London. In the VGG group, he's researching how to develop AI algorithms for multi-modal video understanding. He graduated from Harvard College in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. He interned as a Software Engineer at Facebook, Goldman Sachs, and Instagram. Hailing from the Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago, he is passionate about growing the Caribbean entrepreneurial, AI and startup communities.

11:00am - 11:45am

Monday 17th Aug

Lecture 1: Introduction to Deep Learning

Topics: Image Classification Problem, Shallow Classifier: k-NN Classifier, Cross-Validation

11:00am - 11:45am

Tuesday 18th Aug

Deep Sequence Modeling

Lecture

Topics: Linear Classifiers: SVM and Softmax Classifier, Loss functions, L1/ L2 Regularization, Introduction to Optimization (SGD)

11:00am - 11:45am

Wednesday 19th Aug

Deep Computer Vision

Topic: BackPropagation, MLPs