On May 22 – 23 the American University of Armenia hosted the first in its kind Data Science workshop. The initiative of the event belonged to Arthur Petrosian, the Chair of Computer Science department at Zaven & Sonia Akian College of Science and Engineering.
The workshop consisted of 5 sessions, during which representatives of about 15 famous IT companies based in Armenia and abroad presented their researches concerning algorithms, data analytics in business, data science infrastructure, natural language and image processing, artificial intelligence and bioinformatics.
The main purpose of the workshop was to initiate scientific interactions among groups of scientists and entrepreneurs in Armenia and abroad who work on developing cutting-edge algorithms for machine learning and big data analytics and their applications in various areas of science, economy, and commerce.
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