TECHNICAL WORKSHOP SERIES: FEDERATED LEARNING AND ITS APPLICATIONS – PART 2 by Safiia Mohammed

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 - 15:00

School of Computer Science

Technical Workshop Series Federated learning and its applications – Part 2

Presenter:  Safiia Mohammed

Date: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023

Time:  3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Location: 4th Floor (Workshop space) at 300 Ouellette Avenue (School of Computer Science Advanced Computing Hub)

 

LATECOMERS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED once the presentation has begun.

 

Abstract: 

This workshop will cover the main concepts of Federated Learning, when different agents/ workers can join a federated environment to train their models without sharing their datasets. The workshops will give examples of working on open source frameworks.

 

Workshop Outline:

1. FL platforms

2. Flower FL platform

 

Prerequisites:

Python, preferred to know PyTorch/tensor flow frameworks

 

Biography: 

Safiia is a Ph.D. student at the School of Computer Science (University of Windsor). She is interested in applying ML in CyberSecurity.