{"id":1939,"date":"2020-03-23T15:30:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T21:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:44:33","slug":"amrina-ferdous-gives-presentation-at-the-data-science-and-image-analysis-conference-of-the-pacific-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/2020\/03\/23\/amrina-ferdous-gives-presentation-at-the-data-science-and-image-analysis-conference-of-the-pacific-northwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Amrina Ferdous gives presentation at the \u201cData Science and Image Analysis Conference of the Pacific Northwest\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">February 29th through March 1st, 2020 Computing Ph.D. student&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/about-us\/directory\/computing-alumni\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amrina Ferdous&nbsp;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">attended and presented her current research at the \u201cData Science and Image Analysis Conference of the Pacific Northwest\u201d at Washington State University in Pullman, WA. This year\u2019s conference explored \u201cefforts to address various data analytic methodologies with their scientific and social impacts of large-scale datasets and images\u201d. Amrina presented her current work \u201c<\/span>A Comparison of Inverse Methods and Neural Networks in Geophysics\u201d<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In this presentation, she compared two different approaches: Inverse Methods and Neural Networks and explained how data collection practitioners could design useful methods that could substantially advance knowledge in a variety of applications, such as industry, academic, government institutions etc.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amrina\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">presentation emphasized parameter estimation to recover images in a nonlinear system from an incomplete data set.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amrina summarized her talk stating, \u201cInverse Methods and Neural Networks are used to estimate causal factors from a set of observations. Inversion sees the physics through the mathematical model while the Neural Networks learn the physics from the training data.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amrina is a current Computing Ph.D. student with Data Science emphasis at Boise State who is currently involved with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">working on tensor, inversion, tensor Neural Network, and deep Neural Network.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"687\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/981\/2020\/03\/Amrina-presenting-resized.webp\" alt=\"Computing Ph.D. student Amrina Ferdous presenting her research\" class=\"wp-image-11040\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 29th through March 1st, 2020 Computing Ph.D. student&nbsp;Amrina Ferdous&nbsp;attended and presented her current research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[10,18,22],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students-in-action","tag-data-science","tag-research","tag-students-in-action"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"","author_name":"chrismurphy9","cats":["Students in Action"],"featured_caption":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12710,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/12710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}