Guest Lecture Report on “DEEP LEARNING”

The Department of Computer Science, St.Philomena’s College, Mysuru organized a guest lecture on “Deep Learning” on 21st June 2022.The program was held in the gracious presence of Rev.Fr.JohnPaul , Campus Administrator ,The Speaker and Prof.E.Gloriya Priyadarshini, Head, Department of Computer Science(UG),St.Philomena’s College. It started at 10:30 A.M in the college auditorium with a prayer song by Cylvia Fernandes of 6^TH semester BCA followed by welcome speech by Prof.Syeda Masarath, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science.

Later the gathering was addressed by Rev.Fr.John Paul enlightening the session with his words of wisdom. The introduction to the chief guest of the day was done by Prof. Reena Mol V.U, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science.\

The session was taken over by Prof. Sharath Kumar Y.H , Professor and Head ,Department of Information Science and Engineering, MIT, Mysore. Sir started the session stating that “DEEP LEARNING EVERYWHERE” means the applications of deep learning is found almost everywhere like in the field of media and entertainment, security , defence ,medicine , biology and so on. Then introduction about data science was given as a cross platform which is an integration of various disciplines like Mathematics, Statistics, Information Science and Computer Science. Insights were given about machine learning as a mechanization of understanding systems. Small example was explained about credit risk analysis by taking bank loan as a scenario followed by introduction to data mining along with its phases. Speaker quoted machine learning as predicting the future based on the past. The speaker enlightened the session with deep learning applications in daily life and classification of datasets using deep learning techniques.

The session was followed by Q&A and vote of thanks by Prof. Harinakshi, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science. The session was a great success with more than 200 participants (including teaching faculties, BCA and BSC students) and an eye opener to all the stakeholders who involved actively in the session.