2022 DataSAI for Neuroscience Summer School

The inaugural Chen Institute Data Science and AI (DataSAI) for Neuroscience Summer School took place July 5 - 15, 2022 at the historic Seeley Mudd estate in San Marino. Over the nine days, Caltech neuroscience graduate students and postdocs learned cutting-edge computational methods in data science and machine learning. Links to lecture recordings and course materials are available for each day.

Day 1, Tuesday, July 5, 2022: Computational basics, including dimensionality reduction, overfitting, regularization and dataset engineering
Adi Nair and Sabera Talukder

Day 2, Wednesday, July 6, 2022: Dynamical time series analysis
Dr. Ann Kennedy and Dr. Xuan Ma

Day 3, Thursday, July 7, 2022: High dimensional data analysis
Dr. Ann Kennedy and Dr. Xuan Ma

Day 4, Friday, July 8, 2022: Autoencoders and machine learning introduction
Sabera Talukder

Day 5, Monday, July 11, 2022: Single-cell RNASeq, linear regression and hypothesis testing
Dr. Lior Pachter and Tara Chari

Day 6, Tuesday, July 12, 2022: Bring Your Own Data Day - data preprocessing and model engineering
Sabera Talukder, Sina Booeshaghi, Kristjan Eldjarn, Matthew Levine and Delany Sullivan

Day 7, Wednesday, July 13, 2022: Introduction to deep learning and LFADS
Dr. Chethan Pandarinath and Dr. Chris Versteeg

Day 8, Thursday, July 14, 2022: Generative modeling and MYOW
Dr. Eva Dyer and Dr. Mehdi Azabou

Day 9, Friday, July 15, 2022: RNNs and dynamical systems
Dr. Jonathan Kao and Brandon McMahan