Orientation Day at the Ghent University Global Campus in Korea: Introduction

1. Orientation Day at the Ghent University
Global Campus in Korea: Introduction
Wesley De Neve
Ghent University – iMinds & KAIST
Songdo, Korea
August 29, 2014

2. 2
Professional Background
• Academic credentials
- Master’s degree in computer science (2002)
• at Ghent University, Belgium
- Ph.D. degree in computer science engineering (2007)
• at Ghent University, Belgium
• “Description-driven media resource adaptation”
• Current employment
- Multimedia Lab @ Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium (since 2011)
- Image and Video Systems Lab @ KAIST, Korea (since 2007)

3. 3
• Main track
Research Topics
- social media understanding
- visual content understanding
- machine learning
• artificial neural networks
• Side track
- compression of genomic data using
video coding principles
- querying of biomedical datasets
using Semantic Web technology

4. 4
Informatics 1: Background
• Researchers are often confronted with time-consuming and repetitive
tasks when gathering and processing data
- collecting data from websites
- converting files from one format into another
- analyzing, summarizing and visualizing the data obtained
• The exponential flow of newly incoming data requires researchers to
automate these tasks in order to speed up their daily job routines

5. 5
Informatics 1: Goals
• To teach you how to describe time-consuming and repetitive tasks in
such a way that these can be performed automatically by a computer
• To teach you how to think and work in Python
- highly popular language for teaching introductory computer science
- helps bridging the language gap between humans and computers

6. 6
• Teaching
Informatics 1: Practicalities
- theory lectures
- supervised hands-on sessions
- self-study using a handbook
• Evaluation
- weekly programming assignments
• basic exercises
• advanced exercises
- open book examination