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Global Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning<\/span>
\n<\/strong>PLENARY SPEAKERS<\/strong><\/h1>\n
\n

2:00 – 3:45 pm, November 16, Thursday, Onsite Room 3
\nSession Chair: Dr. Soheila Ghane<\/strong><\/h3>\n

2:00 – 2:15 pm, November 16, Thursday<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr Srikanth Thudumu\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\nSenior Research Fellow<\/strong><\/span>
\nApplied Artificial Intelligence Institute (A\u00b2I\u00b2)<\/strong><\/span>
\nDeakin University, Melbourne, Australia<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Dr Srikanth Thudumu is a Senior Research Fellow at the Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute (A2I2), Deakin University. He specializes in translational AI research, focusing on applying state-of-the-art AI advancements to solve real-world problems, particularly identifying unknown or invisible anomalies. With a PhD in AI, his expertise primarily lies in detecting anomalies in high-dimensional big data. His research interests encompass Anomaly Detection, Big Dimensionality, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), Object Tracking, Operationalising ML, and Translational\/Applied AI. Notably, Dr Thudumu successfully led the commercial deployment of an AI-powered, mind-controlled autonomous wheelchair. Dr Thudumu has also secured several research grants, including that of the Defence Science Technology Group (DSTG), Australia. Additionally, he has spearheaded projects involving the development of a Context-aware Search Engine and an AI platform for merchandise image processing.<\/p>\n

\n

2:15 – 2:30 pm, November 16, Thursday<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dr. Soheila Ghane<\/strong><\/span>
\nLead Data Scientist<\/strong><\/span>
\nCo-Founder of Metaboid
\n<\/span>Melbourne, Victoria, Australia\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Soheila Ghane is Lead Data Scientist and Co-Founder of MetaBoid. She collaborates with the business leaders in devising strategies for ML\/AI adoption, education, and maturity assessment. She also leads a team of data scientists in discovering new data driven opportunities, developing and productionizing best practices, and tailoring the solutions\u2019 metrics to the industry and business requirements. Soheila received her PhD degree from The University of Melbourne in the field of computer science and differentially private data analysis. She published papers in top-tier journals including IEEE Transactions and IEEE IoT journal. In her research, she proposed robust and efficient algorithms for preserving individuals\u2019 privacy while sharing and analysing their sensitive data in applications such as transportation.\u00a0\u00a0Her academic and leadership excellence is recognised by Google Research and IEEE Computer Society. She has been recognised by the global Anita Borg Institute as a distinguished woman in tech.<\/p>\n

\n

2:30 – 2:45 pm, November 16, Thursday<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dr.\u00a0Susmita Saha<\/strong><\/span>
\nResearch Fellow, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health<\/strong><\/span>
\nDeputy Director, Ageing and Neurodegeneration<\/strong><\/span>
\nSchool of Psychological Sciences,<\/strong><\/span>
\nMonash University, Australia<\/strong><\/span>
\nSecretary, IEEE Victorian Section<\/strong><\/span>
\nSecretary, IEEE-VIC Women in Engineering<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

A title of your talk: Artificial Intelligence to expedite rare disease drug development and clinical trials<\/strong><\/p>\n

Susmita Saha<\/strong> is a distinguished Research Fellow at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University. Her primary research focus revolves around the application of multimodal data processing especially medical imaging analysis and state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to accelerate the drug development and clinical trials for rare neurodegenerative disorders. She has authored 20 high-impact articles in esteemed peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Beyond her academic publications, she holds a portfolio of 5 US patents. Currently she is leading several machine learning projects, as a chief investigator with renowned national and international experts and supervising graduate research students. Furthermore, Dr. Saha holds the position of Deputy Director for the Ageing and Neurodegeneration program within the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University. Prior to this, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), the national science agency of Australia (2018-2021), and at IBM Research Australia (2015-2017). In addition, her professional journey has encompassed both academia and industry, including roles in the mobile operator and medical startup sectors. Dr. Saha achieved her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Melbourne in 2016. Apart from her academic role, Saha is performing as the Secretary of IEEE Victorian Section and Secretary of IEEE-VIC Women in Engineering, contributing to develop and enrich the current and next generation STEM professionals.<\/p>\n

\n

2:45 – 3:00 pm, November 16, Thursday<\/p>\n

Amin Rigi<\/span><\/strong>
\nData Science Lead<\/span><\/strong>
\nbp<\/span><\/strong>
\nMelbourne, Victoria, Australia<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n

3:00 – 3:15 pm, November 16, Thursday<\/p>\n

Reduan H Khan, PhD
\nProduct Owner Principal and Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)<\/span><\/strong>
\nTelstra<\/span><\/strong>
\nMelbourne, Victoria, Australia<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n

3:15 – 3:30 pm, November 16, Thursday<\/p>\n

Hany Hossny, PhD<\/strong><\/span>
\nFounder @ DataWorks.ai<\/strong><\/span>
\nMelbourne, Victoria, Australia<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

3:30 – 3:45 pm, November 16, Thursday<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dr Nassim Belbaly
\nCTO Empathetic AI
\n<\/span>GM DragoAI<\/span><\/strong>
\nMelbourne, Australia<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Presentation Title: How Text Generation create value for Cx?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Nassim Aissa Belbaly\u00a0is the CTO and Co-founder of Empathetic AI, a Generative AI startup that specialize in customer support operations for finance and retail sectors proposing an alternative solution to chatbots and he is also GM of DragoAi a consulting firm on AI. He was Full professor in private and public business schools where he served previously as a Dean of Academic Affairs at Montpellier Business School and Director of Birmingham City University Business School in charge of the Accreditations, Faculty management and Academic content.\u00a0He has mainly published in Information system journals and theoretical analysis papers in the field of Technology and Innovation Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Global Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning PLENARY SPEAKERS 2:00 – 3:45 pm, November 16, Thursday, Onsite Room 3 Session Chair: Dr. Soheila Ghane 2:00 – 2:15 pm, November 16, Thursday Dr Srikanth Thudumu\u00a0 Senior Research Fellow Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute (A\u00b2I\u00b2) Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Dr Srikanth Thudumu is a Senior Research Fellow at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/melbourne2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/melbourne2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/melbourne2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/melbourne2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/melbourne2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/melbourne2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2591,"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/melbourne2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2471\/revisions\/2591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/melbourne2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}