A three day workshop was jointly conducted by the Department of Statistics and Department of Computer Science on 3rd, 4th and 10th September 2022. The workshop was organized as an outcome of the project “Curriculum Development in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence DS&AI” which is an Erasmus + KA2 Project co-funded by the Erusmus+ program of the European Union.
The course emphasized on machine learning techniques and applications for finding interesting patterns / information from large amount of data. Participants were able to learn to design, implement, and evaluate intelligent systems incorporating models learned from large data. The target audience was the Business leaders, mid to senior managers, data specialists, consultants, and business professionals. The curriculum for the workshop was developed with the partnership of European experts aiming to up skill the professionals of ICT industry in Sri Lanka. Dr. Ravimal Bandara, Department of Computer Science, was the resource person of the workshop and it was coordinated by Dr. Chitraka Wickramarachchi, Department of Statistics.
At the end of the workshop, a certificate of participation was awarded to the participant. Further, those who successfully participated the workshop were eligible to sit for the examination conducted by Leiden University Netherlands, one of our partners from the European Union, and obtain a certificate if passed.
There were 39 participants for the workshop and the overall feedback was positive.
