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This seminar forms part of the AI3SD Online Seminar Series that will run across the summer. Please sign up to register for this event, and the weblink for the seminar will be sent to you the day before the event. A recording of this seminar will be made available afterwards on our AI3SD YouTube Channel. This is a general interest seminar, and by the end the audience should have gained some intuition for dealing with big, multidimensional data in machine learning approaches to chemical problems.

In the last hundred years mankind has fully absorbed the idea of multi-dimensional space, starting with 4D space time. Due to the increase in computational power, scientists can now manipulate molecules in 4D (3D vibrating molecules in VR) and work with multidimensional datasets, which are needed to utilize big data and machine learning. However, our intuition from 3D space can fall down when dealing with higher dimensions and a lack of intuition can lead to mistakes in analysis. In this talk I will discuss how to think about the best dimensional space to use to describe chemical problems, how multi-dimensional space is different, techniques for using it and analysing the outputs of machine learning.

Dr. Ella M Gale is the machine learning subject specialist attached to the Technology Enhanced Chemical Synthesis Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Bristol. She has a PhD in Computational Chemistry from Imperial College London. In her career since she has worked in a set of diverse areas: neural networks, AI, cellular automata, unconventional computing, machine learning, memristors, computer vision, nanotechnology, materials science and supports colleagues in chemical engineering and synthetic chemistry. Her current research interests are applying machine learning techniques to de novo drug design and retrosynthesis and applying computer vision techniques to chemistry lab monitoring.