Genomics produces more data than Astronomy, Twitter, and YouTube combined, having caused research in this discipline to leapfrog to the forefront of cloud technology. Dr. Denis Bauer provides an insider’s view into a Spark-based machine learning framework able to find disease genes in ultra-high-dimensional data (80 million columns), which enables population-scale understanding. She will also highlight how serverless, which is pitted to be the “next big thing in cloud” and become a $20 Billion market, enables the “search engine for the genome” to seamlessly sift through 3 billion letters while having a zero cost downtime. The talk compares cloud setups across AWS, Alibaba and Azure and touches on how to evolve cloud architecture more efficiently through an hypothesis-driven approach to DevOps.
Dr Denis Bauer is CSIRO’s Principal Research Scientist in transformational bioinformatics and an internationally recognised expert in machine learning and cloud-based genomics, having presented at AWS Summit, Canberra, 2018 and Alibaba Infinity, Singapore 2018. Her achievements include developing open-source machine-learning cloud services that accelerate disease research and being used by 10,000 researchers annually.
Date/time: 29 Aug 2019 12:00-13:00 AEST
Presenter: Dr Denis Bauer, Group leader, Transformational Bioinformatics, CSIRO