Medicinal Foods - Machine Learning

Project Overview:

Project Name:

Medicinal Foods

Project Duration: (in months)

6-12 months (Ongoing)

Project outline:

Use citizen science to gather and validate data about the different foods and food-preparations from both traditional knowledge and current scientific enquiry.

To make such data available for use by anyone in the world through online apps.

Role Summary: (Briefly explain the overview of the role in 1-2 sentences)

· Review requirements and identify areas where applying machine learning/ NLP techniques can add value to the end product

Essential Tasks: (List down the essential tasks that individual perform in the job)

· Analyze and prototype key deep learning and data analytics algorithms and applications

· Apply machine learning and other techniques to design and prototype intelligent, real-world applications

• Define the processes needed to achieve operational perfection in engineering functions, project management and system reliability.

Skills & Competencies: (List all critical skills needed for this role. Be specific)

* Python programming experience

* Software engineering experience

* Understands programming

* Ability & commitment to work independently and collaboratively with numerous people

* Excellent problem identification, problem solving, and analytical skills

Software tools & Program knowledge: (List all software tools & program knowledge or experience critical for the role. Be specific)

* Familiarity with NLP/ supervised and unsupervised learning models, CoreML, python, Tensorflow/mxnet, are a plus.

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