GHOST 2019/2020

This semester GHOST will work in five groups – if you want to join us, it’s a last chance!

1. Machine Learning Seminar
   The group at each meeting discusses scientific papers from a selected area, e.g. types of augmentation or new optimization techniques. Every meeting a new topic is discussed, and each participant presents a different technique / approach on a given issue. Thanks to this, we hope that we quickly cover a vast amount of machine learning techniques.
2. Kaggle group
   The beginning of the group’s activity consists in analyzing the winning solutions of already completed competitions and trying to come up with alternative solutions. In the further phase, after such training, we will take part in current competitions on our own;)
3. GHOSTRacer group
   Continuation of the project that has been ongoing for several months – building a miniature “self-driving car”.
4. Intro to ML group
   A group for people starting their adventure with Machine Learning. The group will choose an online course or a book to study. Weekly meetings will be used to ask questions, solve exercises and discuss the topic.
5. GHOST Day OC
   Group ending the organization of the GHOST Day: AMLC conference at November 8, 2019 😉

PUT Student Organizations Day

Yesterday the Day of Student Organizations took place at the Lecture Center of Poznan University of Technology. GHOST also had a stand! We were presenting how works a real-time object detection system based on the YOLO neural network. Basing on the number of new applications to our group – it was a great success 😉

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Registration has begun!

Registration for GHOST Day: AMLC has just started. Though tickets are free, their number is heavily limited. Hurry up and save your spot right away.

Take 5 minutes to fill out the registration form:

http://ghostday.pl/#registration

Still not sure if coming?

Main reasons to attend GHOST Day: AMLC:

• there are plenty of fascinating lectures on three parallel tracks,
• it’s one of the biggest ML event in Poland,
• it’s a great opportunity to network with other ML enthusiasts during lunch and coffee breaks,
  
• …and it’s all for free!

Read about these and other conference details on our conference website:

http://ghostday.pl

Collaboration with Botland

We are pleased to announce the start of cooperation with Botland.

GHOST in new semester

Students ask us “What about GHOST this semester?” And we don’t know 😐
GHOST’s activities depends on the will of its members. In one semester we can read books, and in the next we can build a space rocket. Everyone can declare what they would like to do in this survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctsupczZ1Fu84nQv9hXW9PDMgKjoabnb3kUs6ytIwPqWO5UA/viewform

The survey is available to both current members and new members. We  encourage you to join GHOST this semester 😉

GHOST Day: Applied Machine Learning Conference

For last few months our team is working on a big event: an all-day conference in PUT’s Conference Centre! Main theme is of course related to what we’re interested in: machine learning and artificial intelligence.

We’re planning an opening lecture, three parallel presentation tracks, lunch and coffee break. And it’s all for free! Remember though, number of tickets is limited. So look for the conference related news on the horizon and stay tuned 🙂

Conference website: ghostday.pl

Double podium in the “Ogarnij Big Data” contest!

At the end of last month, the final of the “Ogarnij Big Data” contest organized by Żabka took place. The GHOST’s representatives managed to take second and third place! Who knows, maybe in the next edition we will be able to get the first?

Contest website: https://ogarnijbigdata.pl

GHOST-PSNC Internship Programme

Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center in collaboration with GHOST run an internship program particularly for GHOST’s members. Several selected students will work in projects related to outlier detection in multivariate time series and in unsupervised natural language processing.

Research Grant for GHOST

Together with KN RAI we decided to take part in a joint project. Our aim is to build a miniature of an autonomous car controlled by deep neural networks. The grant application has been approved positively! Soon KN RAI will start building the car, and then we will take the baton up and conduct a driving course 🙂

GHOST members won the competition for the best engineering…

Three of us recently won the first place in a competition for the best engineering thesis in the fields of Information Technology and Bioinformatics. The competition was conducted under the patronage of IEEE. More information on: https://fc.put.poznan.pl/fc2/drupal/node/1116