<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-group-header" style="box-sizing:inherit"><span class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-title gmail-field-type-ds gmail-field-label-hidden" style="font-family:Mallory,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span class="gmail-odd gmail-first gmail-last" style="box-sizing:inherit"><h1 class="gmail-title" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:300;padding:0px;font-feature-settings:"kern","liga","dlig";font-size:1.76471em;line-height:normal;font-stretch:normal;color:rgb(0,60,118);text-transform:uppercase;display:inline-block"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">ERIC JONAS</h1></span></span></span></div><div class="gmail-group-header" style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="font-family:Mallory,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px">University of California, Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science</span></div><div class="gmail-group-header" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-abstract-title gmail-field-type-text gmail-field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-items" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0.5em"><font face="Mallory, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:20px"><b>Exploiting computational scale for richer model-based inference</b></span></font></div><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0.5em"><font size="4">Thursday, February 21, 4:00PM to 5:15PM<br>Mason Laboratory <br>9 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 211<br></font><br></div><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0.5em"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-body gmail-field-type-text-with-summary gmail-field-label-above" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Mallory,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><div class="gmail-field-items" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:inherit"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px">Understanding the deluge of scientific data acquired from next-generation technologies, from astronomy to neuroscience, requires advances in translating our existing knowledge to useful models. Here I show how our recent advances in scalable computing, from “serverless” cloud offerings to deep function approximation, can let us capture and exploit this prior knowledge. Examples include models derived from human intuition (for neural connectomics), carefully-engineered physical systems (for imaging through scattering media), and even direct simulation (for superresolution microscopy). By expanding the space of models we can work with, we can avoid common data science pitfalls while making computing at scale accessible to the entire scientific community.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px">Bio: Eric Jonas is currently a postdoc in computer science at UC Berkeley working with Ben Recht on machine learning for accelerating scientific discovery. He earned his PhD in Computational Neuroscience, M. Eng in Electrical Engineering, BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and BS in Neurobiology, all from MIT. Prior to his return to academia, he was founder and CEO of Prior Knowledge, a predictive database company which was acquired in 2012 by Salesforce.com, where he was Chief Predictive Scientist until 2014. In 2015 he was named one of the top rising stars in bioengineering by the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).</p></div></div></div><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-event-description gmail-field-type-text-with-summary gmail-field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Mallory,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><div class="gmail-field-items" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:inherit"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px">Pre-talk tea, Dunham Lab., Suite 222, Room 228</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-group-left" style="box-sizing:inherit;float:left;width:auto;padding-right:14.5156px;max-width:30%;font-family:Mallory,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-image gmail-field-type-image gmail-field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-items" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-website gmail-field-type-link-field gmail-field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-items" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:inhe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