SWE and NSBE Boston Workshops by MathWorks
Workshop Overview
Join us for two hands-on virtual workshops on Wednesday, September 23 from 2:30 to 5:00 pm. Learn about technology in the world around us today using applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), and Digital Twins.
Registration closes Monday, September 21st.
Registration closes Monday, September 21st.
Workshop Details
Digital Twins in a Pandemic: Use Simulation Data for Quadcopter Mission Planning
Learn how drones aid in COVID-19 medical deliveries. In this hands-on workshop, you will use a digital twin of a quadcopter to collect simulation data, analyze collision avoidance controls and test scenarios to ensure the drone can accomplish its critical mission. The digital twin uses a physics-based modeling approach and incorporates the drone’s environment by streaming simulation data. You will walk away from the workshop with a better sense of why digital twins are an important topic in today’s industry.
Do you see what I see: Using Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence
Welcome to the world of augmented reality and artificial intelligence! This workshop explains complex AR and AI topics such as pose recognition and mixed reality. Through hands-on exercises that apply deep learning and image processing techniques, you will build real world examples to interact with your augmented world. You will learn about the novel applications of AR+AI, their limitations and social impacts amplified by discrimination and COVID-19. You’ll leave armed with code, inspiration, and an ethical framework for your own projects!
Learn how drones aid in COVID-19 medical deliveries. In this hands-on workshop, you will use a digital twin of a quadcopter to collect simulation data, analyze collision avoidance controls and test scenarios to ensure the drone can accomplish its critical mission. The digital twin uses a physics-based modeling approach and incorporates the drone’s environment by streaming simulation data. You will walk away from the workshop with a better sense of why digital twins are an important topic in today’s industry.
Do you see what I see: Using Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence
Welcome to the world of augmented reality and artificial intelligence! This workshop explains complex AR and AI topics such as pose recognition and mixed reality. Through hands-on exercises that apply deep learning and image processing techniques, you will build real world examples to interact with your augmented world. You will learn about the novel applications of AR+AI, their limitations and social impacts amplified by discrimination and COVID-19. You’ll leave armed with code, inspiration, and an ethical framework for your own projects!
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Agenda
2:30 - 2:45 pm MathWorks, SWE, and NSBE Introductions
2:45 – 3:45 pm Workshop 1: “Digital Twins in a Pandemic: Use Simulation Data for Quadcopter Mission Planning”
3:45 – 3:50 pm Break
3:55 – 4:55 pm Workshop 2: “Do You See What I See: Using Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence”
4:55 – 5:00 pm Wrap-up
Location: Virtual!
The event will be held virtually.
A Microsoft Teams meeting link will be shared prior to the event.
Workshop participants will use MATLAB Online, which is available through any desktop web browser.
There is no fee to attend this virtual event. Please consider donating the typical registration fee of $10 to SWE Boston and NSBE Boston. Donations will be used to support future engineers and drive diversity in STEM. Any donations are always appreciated!
2:30 - 2:45 pm MathWorks, SWE, and NSBE Introductions
2:45 – 3:45 pm Workshop 1: “Digital Twins in a Pandemic: Use Simulation Data for Quadcopter Mission Planning”
3:45 – 3:50 pm Break
3:55 – 4:55 pm Workshop 2: “Do You See What I See: Using Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence”
4:55 – 5:00 pm Wrap-up
Location: Virtual!
The event will be held virtually.
A Microsoft Teams meeting link will be shared prior to the event.
Workshop participants will use MATLAB Online, which is available through any desktop web browser.
There is no fee to attend this virtual event. Please consider donating the typical registration fee of $10 to SWE Boston and NSBE Boston. Donations will be used to support future engineers and drive diversity in STEM. Any donations are always appreciated!
IMPORTANT Note on this Event
A desktop machine or laptop is required for the hands-on workshops. MATLAB Online is not supported on mobile devices.
A web camera will be needed with MATLAB Online as a part of Workshop 2: “Do you see what I see: Using Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence”.
A web camera will be needed with MATLAB Online as a part of Workshop 2: “Do you see what I see: Using Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence”.
Donate to SWE Boston
Donate to the Society of Women Engineers SWE Boston section and support K-12 STEM outreach. Your donations will help fund engineering and science outreach kits and activities to help inspire girls to pursue engineering at the collegiate level and beyond.
Please donate through Eventbrite or PayPal at https://www.paypal.me/sweboston
Please donate through Eventbrite or PayPal at https://www.paypal.me/sweboston
Donate to NSBE Boston
Learn more how you can inspire STEM with the National Society of Black Engineers NSBE Boston section. Your gift will move the U.S. closer to graduating 10K Black Engineers annually by 2025.
Please use https://www.nsbeboston.org/donations/give/
Please use https://www.nsbeboston.org/donations/give/
About Our Speakers
Shruti Karulkar, Quality Engineering Manager, MathWorks
Sarah Mohamed, Software Engineer for Statistics and Machine Learning, MathWorks
Louvere Walker-Hannon, Senior Application Engineer, MathWorks
Sarah Mohamed, Software Engineer for Statistics and Machine Learning, MathWorks
Louvere Walker-Hannon, Senior Application Engineer, MathWorks
Shruti Karulkar is the Quality Engineering Manager for Test & Measurement and MATLAB Mobile at MathWorks. Shruti's team of highly creative engineers work to design and implement cutting-edge tools to qualify MATLAB and Simulink support for hardware ranging from simple - Arduino/Raspberry Pi/iOS and Android phones - to high-end RF Signal Generators. Shruti has a long history of serving as a STEM mentor and is a STEM Ambassador for MathWorks. Shruti has helped teach maker classes Fun with Arduino and Fun with Raspberry Pi to hundreds of attendees. She is actively involved in the maker community. She led a team to win the first prize in a Hack Day organized at MathWorks, for a project involving the gamification of pose detection. Shruti was a speaker at both GHC18 and GHC19 delivering successful and popular hands-on AI workshops. More information on her GHC 18 experience has been blogged here. She was also a part of the team that delivered these workshops to over 150 participants at WECode 2019 and 2020, the largest student-run Women in Computer Science conference in the US.
Sarah Mohamed is a software engineer for Statistics and Machine Learning at MathWorks. Her team builds tools that enable scientists and engineers to exchange deep neural networks between MATLAB and other languages. At MathWorks, she has also worked as a customer-facing Application Support Engineer, helping customers to investigate and overcome technical challenges in their own machine and deep learning applications. Sarah presented a hands-on workshop, Pocket AI and IoT, at GHC19. She has also delivered the hands-on Deep Learning and IoT workshop at TechTogether Boston, the largest student-led hackathon for women in Boston, where she has also served as a mentor. She has assisted others delivering the Deep Learning and IoT workshop at WECode, the largest student-led computer science conference for women in the US.
Louvere Walker-Hannon is a MathWorks Senior Application Engineer, who provides direction and recommendations on technical workflows for various applications. Specifically, she assists with the following topics image processing, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, geospatial analysis, and data analytics when discussing technical workflows. Louvere has worked in three different engineering roles throughout her 20 year career while at MathWorks. A prominent theme in her career is communication of technical concepts to various audiences and being involved with STEM education. She was also a Program Presenter, in this role she was the lead educator of STEM topics for Cahners ComputerPlace within the Boston Museum of Science. Louvere is a member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). She has a long history of serving as a STEM mentor. Louvere volunteers with Black Girls Code and the Society of Women Engineers. She is a Curriculum Lead for the Boston Chapter of Black Girls CODE, a Co-Lead of the SWE Latinos Affinity Group, and a Society Engagement Lead for the SWE African American Affinity Group. She has a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering and a master’s degree in Geographic Information Technology with a specialization in Remote Sensing. Louvere has presented and continues to present at several STEM related conferences on various topics. She recently presented her work on a Natural Language Processing application at the 100th American Meteorological Society in January 2020 and at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) virtual conference in April 2020. She also assists with organizing conferences in addition to presenting at them. In July 2020, she served as one the Virtual Chairs of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) and is one of the MeetUp Chairs for the upcoming 34th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) scheduled for December 2020.
Maria E. Gavilan-Alfonso, Senior Online Content Developer, MathWorks
Brenda Zhuang, Software Development Manager, MathWorks
Sara Nadeau, Engineering Technical Writer, MathWorks
Brenda Zhuang, Software Development Manager, MathWorks
Sara Nadeau, Engineering Technical Writer, MathWorks
Maria E. Gavilan-Alfonso is a Senior Online Content Developer at MathWorks, where she helps integrating MATLAB and Simulink in online learning experiences worldwide. Since she joined MathWorks in 2016, she has worked with professors to support thousands of students using MOOC platforms. She is also one of the developers and instructors of the Coursera specialization “Practical Data Science with MATLAB.” She was a speaker in April for the Open Data Science Conference in Boston (Virtual). Maria holds a MSc in Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University, a BSc in Physics from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and she’s currently an MBA candidate at UIUC. Prior to joining MathWorks, Maria worked as an engineer supporting simulation projects and training other engineers in aerodynamics, aeroacoustics and flight dynamics. Her current interests include autonomous aerial vehicles. Maria also volunteers in multiple events looking to increase the representation of women in science and engineering.
Dr. Brenda Zhuang is a Software Development Manager at MathWorks, where she leads a team to develop software tools for automatic deployment of embedded applications on microprocessors, ECUs and FPGAs. Brenda joined MathWorks in 2007 as a software developer. Her contributions include key features and enhancements to the Simulink product family. She received her PhD from Boston University in System Engineering developing optimal scheduling approaches in smart sensor networks. She serves on technical program committees for conferences in Control Theory, Modeling and Simulation.
Sara Nadeau is an Engineering Technical Writer at MathWorks with four years of experience writing the best-in-class, highly technical documentation MathWorks is known for. Before joining MathWorks, she worked for three years as an engineer at Cascodium Inc, a consulting firm that specializes in circuit and PCB design. She holds a BS from the University of Maine in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
Sara is passionate about DEI and opening access to STEM careers and education. She has mentored students at the Boston Museum of Science, led a Girls Who Code club, and volunteered with professional organizations including SWE and NSBE. As part of the MathWorks GHC19 team, Sara helped prepare and test content for the workshops Pocket AI and IoT, How to Do AI with Things that Fly, and Edge AI with Raspberry Pi. She served as a TA for all three workshop sessions in Orlando. She has also blogged about MathWorks’ presence GHC18 and GHC19. In January 2020 she was part of the MathWorks speaker team that delivered the Pocket AI and IoT workshop, originally built for GHC19, at the Yale Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics. See more in the Yale CUWiP Twitter moment.
Dr. Brenda Zhuang is a Software Development Manager at MathWorks, where she leads a team to develop software tools for automatic deployment of embedded applications on microprocessors, ECUs and FPGAs. Brenda joined MathWorks in 2007 as a software developer. Her contributions include key features and enhancements to the Simulink product family. She received her PhD from Boston University in System Engineering developing optimal scheduling approaches in smart sensor networks. She serves on technical program committees for conferences in Control Theory, Modeling and Simulation.
Sara Nadeau is an Engineering Technical Writer at MathWorks with four years of experience writing the best-in-class, highly technical documentation MathWorks is known for. Before joining MathWorks, she worked for three years as an engineer at Cascodium Inc, a consulting firm that specializes in circuit and PCB design. She holds a BS from the University of Maine in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
Sara is passionate about DEI and opening access to STEM careers and education. She has mentored students at the Boston Museum of Science, led a Girls Who Code club, and volunteered with professional organizations including SWE and NSBE. As part of the MathWorks GHC19 team, Sara helped prepare and test content for the workshops Pocket AI and IoT, How to Do AI with Things that Fly, and Edge AI with Raspberry Pi. She served as a TA for all three workshop sessions in Orlando. She has also blogged about MathWorks’ presence GHC18 and GHC19. In January 2020 she was part of the MathWorks speaker team that delivered the Pocket AI and IoT workshop, originally built for GHC19, at the Yale Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics. See more in the Yale CUWiP Twitter moment.
About Our Sponsor: MathWorks
MathWorks is the leading developer of mathematical computing software. Engineers and scientists worldwide rely on its products to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and development.
MATLAB®, the language of technical computing, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink® is a graphical environment for simulation and Model-Based Design of multidomain dynamic and embedded systems. The company produces nearly 100 additional products for specialized tasks such as data analysis and image processing.
MATLAB and Simulink are used throughout the automotive, aerospace, communications, electronics, and industrial automation industries as fundamental tools for research and development. They are also used for modeling and simulation in increasingly technical fields, such as financial services and computational biology. MATLAB and Simulink enable the design and development of a wide range of advanced products, including automotive systems, aerospace flight control and avionics, telecommunications and other electronics equipment, industrial machinery, and medical devices. More than 5000 colleges and universities around the world use MATLAB and Simulink for teaching and research in a broad range of technical disciplines.
To learn more, visit https://www.mathworks.com.
MATLAB®, the language of technical computing, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink® is a graphical environment for simulation and Model-Based Design of multidomain dynamic and embedded systems. The company produces nearly 100 additional products for specialized tasks such as data analysis and image processing.
MATLAB and Simulink are used throughout the automotive, aerospace, communications, electronics, and industrial automation industries as fundamental tools for research and development. They are also used for modeling and simulation in increasingly technical fields, such as financial services and computational biology. MATLAB and Simulink enable the design and development of a wide range of advanced products, including automotive systems, aerospace flight control and avionics, telecommunications and other electronics equipment, industrial machinery, and medical devices. More than 5000 colleges and universities around the world use MATLAB and Simulink for teaching and research in a broad range of technical disciplines.
To learn more, visit https://www.mathworks.com.
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