• Ivan Bajic (ibajic at ensc.sfu.ca)
• Office hours: Monday, 13:00-15:00 in ASB 9823

• Mohammad Akbari

• Monday, 15:30-16:50, AQ 5037
• Wednesday, 15:30-16:50, WMC 3210

Introduction to machine learning and artificial neural networks; feasibility of learning; deep feedforward networks; regularization in deep learning; optimization of deep learning models; convolutional networks; recurrent and recursive networks; applications.

• Lecture material available through SFU Canvas

• I. Goodfellow, Y. Bengio, and A. Courville, Deep Learning, MIT Press, 2016. Link
• Y. S. Abu-Mostafa, M. Magdon-Ismail, H.-T. Lin, Learning From Data, 2012. Link
• L. Deng and D. Yu, Deep Learning: Methods and Applications, 2014. Link
• M. Nielsen, Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Link
• T. Rashid, Make Your Own Neural Network, 2016.