Hi everyone, my name is Quan!
I am a Java programmer located near Washington DC though I have invested in data science and deep learning for nearly 3 years, starting with few MOOCs on Coursera and eventually learn about fastai MOOC from a friend. Besides projects in the course, I have used fastai v0.7 and v1.0+ to build some personal projects such as animated movie classification with GradCAM debugging and end-to-end deep learning for tabular and text data, collaborate with @Andreas_Daiminger
I plan to get involved in NLP heavily starting this year, working on both English and my native language Vietnamese (which was a goal of mine when I first started doing deep learning but never got the time to work on it). I have read some papers and currently doing Rachel’s NLP course. I plan to implement a few projects using the new version 2 of the library (I have heard a lot of good things about it!)
Overall, receiving Jeremy’s invite for the 2020 fastai course is a huge honor, since the most useful and practical knowledge about deep learning I have ever known comes from Jeremy’s courses. And another good news is that I am selected for USF’s Data Science Master program starting this Summer so I am extremely psyched to move to San Francisco and get to work with this year’s cohort and the fastai community there!