NVIDIA-BDI Joint Deep Learning Workshop

Design, train, and accelerate your neural network-powered artificial intelligence projects.

HKUST, 27 July 2017

NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute in partnership with HKUST Big Data Institute are excited to announce this 1-day practical deep learning workshop on 27 July, 2017.

Deep learning is a hot topic in both academia and industry since it has recently dramatically improved the state-of-the-art in areas such as speech recognition, computer vision, predicting the activity of drug molecules, and many other machine learning tasks. The basic idea in deep learning is to automatically learn to represent data in multiple layers of increasing abstraction, thus helping to discover intricate structure in large datasets.

The 1-day workshop will provide excellent opportunity to learn fundamentals of deep learning, starting from basic workflows in deep learning, using TensorFlow for building intelligent applications, as well as practical acceleration solutions for large-scale TensorFlow deployments.

Latest update: Due to overwhelming response, the registration of the workshop has been closed. Thank you very much for the support!

Hands-on with TensorFlow


TensorFlow was originally developed by researchers and engineers working on the Google Brain Team within Google's Machine Intelligence research organization. The system is designed to facilitate research in machine learning, and to make it quick and easy to transition from research prototype to production system.

TensorFlow's flexible architecture allows you to deploy computation on everything from multiple CPUs or GPUs to a mobile device with a single API’. Scalability and flexibility of TensorFlow is one of the main advantages it holds over competing frameworks.

Participant of both workshop labs will be awarded certificate of completion. Enroll now to learn everything you need to design, train, and integrate neural network-powered artificial intelligence into your applications using TensorFlow.

All participants need to have a confirmed ticket in order to attend the afternoon lab session. Please register and follow the payment procedure here. The first 20 registered HKUST student will be each given a free ticket to the afternoon lab session.

Latest update: Due to overwhelming response the afternoon training session has been full. Thank you for your interest!

Event Schedule


Time Event Location
9:30-10:00 Check-in LTF
10:00-10:20 Opening LTF
10:20-11:00 Deep Learning, AI Revolution - The Next Computing Paradigm LTF
11:00-11:40 Deep Learning Research In HKUST BDI LTF
11:40-13:00 Lunch break & Registration for Afternoon Session
13:00-13:30 NVIDIA Deep Learning Overview Rm1505
13:30-15:00 Deep Learning Workflows with TensorFlow, MXNet and NVIDIA-Docker Rm1505
15:00-15:20 Break
15:20-17:00 Image Segmentation with TensorFlow Rm1505
17:00-17:30 Q & A Session Rm1505

Event Venue


Morning Session: Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theater (LTF, Lift 25/26), Academic Building, HKUST

Afternoon Session: Room 1505 (Lift 25/26), Academic Building, HKUST

Registration