VIRTUAL SEMINAR: Artificial Intelligence for Agricultural Intelligence Professor Richard Xu

Agriculture is by far, one of the oldest industries in the world. Just like any other industries that modern-day artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have helped to transform, AI has also found its way into many agricultural applications. Typical examples have included machine learning-based data decision making, forecasting to help to increase productivity and quality control; Computer vision based drone/robotic precision spraying etc.
Recently, many new AI technologies have emerged and are eagerly awaiting for its agricultural usefulness. For example, we may apply Reinforcement Learning (RL), which is technology helps DeepMind to win chess/Go game, to compute the best farming strategy/policy at a given time, to overcome the harsh farming environment adversarially.
In this talk, we will introduce and demystify some of the AI concepts. We will also showcase some of the standard tools available to tackle AI problem as well as some the exciting new AI research happening in other disciplines that can be readily applied to agricultural applications!
Richard Yi Da Xu: is an Associate Professor in Machine Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He leads a team of 30 people, includes postdoc, PhD students, and data engineers; His primary research is in Bayesian machine learning, Deep Learning and Computer vision. He published at many International conferences, including AAAI, ECAI, IJCAI, and AI-STATS as well as many top IEEE Transactions: IEEE-(TNNLS, TIP, TSP, TKDE, and T-Cybernetics). Since 2009, he published 1500+ slides of PhD training material in machine learning as well as many online ML videos. His team has collaborated with many Australian industries, including banks, e-commerce, government, utilities, defence and law firms; He established a Deep Learning Sydney meetup which has 4400+ members. He is the sole Australian representative to attend ISO JTC1 SC42 (Artificial Intelligence)’s first plenary.
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