Mining Courses

USENIX Enigma Conference

FeatureSmith- Learning to Detect Malware by Mining the Security Literature - USENIX Enigma 2017

Automated feature engineering system for malware detection using AI to synthesize knowledge from research papers, achieving comparable performance to manual methods and suggesting new informative features.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

NorthSec

Trick or Treat - Unveil the "Stratum" of the Mining Pools

Unveil mining pool strategies, identify Stratum servers, and explore cryptomining malware detection techniques through static and dynamic analysis, web scraping, and network scanning.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Y Combinator

YC Tech Talks - Climate Tech with Charge Robotics, Wright Electric and Impossible Mining

Explore innovative climate tech solutions: electric planes, solar installation robots, underwater mining, and more. Founders share insights on tackling environmental challenges through cutting-edge technology and entrepreneurship.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Paul G. Allen School

PLSE Seminar Series - Alessandra Gorla - Mining Android Apps for Anomalous Behavior

Techniques for detecting suspicious behavior in Android apps by clustering based on advertised functionality and identifying outliers in API usage, with applications in malware detection.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Data Science Dojo

Data Mining Crash Course

Comprehensive overview of data mining essentials, covering data types, quality, preprocessing, similarity analysis, and visualization techniques for effective data-driven decision making.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Australian Water School

MAR for Mining

Explore how Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) is revolutionizing water management in mining, benefiting groundwater users and the environment through innovative reinjection techniques.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Open Data Science

Boston Data Mining - A High-Performance Implementation of Bayesian Clustering

Explore Bayesian nonparametric methods and probabilistic machine learning, focusing on the Chinese Restaurant Process for clustering. Learn optimization strategies for applying these models to big data.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

GOTO Conferences

Mining Repository Data to Debug Software Development Teams

Explore techniques for analyzing repository data to identify misalignments between team and technical architectures, enabling proactive problem-solving in software development.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

BSidesLV

Mining Software Vulnerabilities in SCCM / NIST's NVD - The Rocky Road to Data Nirvana

Explore software vulnerability mining in SCCM and NIST's NVD, uncovering challenges and insights in the journey towards comprehensive data analysis and improved cybersecurity practices.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Surviving a Ph.D. and Career Options in Data Mining - Doctoral Forum Panel

Expert panel discusses strategies for Ph.D. success and post-doctoral career paths in academia, industry, and research labs, offering valuable insights for data mining doctoral students.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Aspen Institute

From Mining to Moscow - How Geopolitics Shape the Energy Transition

Experts discuss geopolitical implications of global clean energy transition, exploring challenges and opportunities in resource acquisition, international competition, and policy decisions.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

USENIX

Config2Spec - Mining Network Specifications from Network Configurations

Automated system for synthesizing formal network specifications from configurations, combining data plane analysis and control plane verification to enhance network reliability and security.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Hack In The Box Security Conference

Exploring Deficiencies in Automatic Vuln Mining Technology

Exploring deficiencies in automatic vulnerability mining tools and proposing a new technique to improve software security through analysis of popular tools and creation of challenging example codes.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Elvis Saravia

Building Tools and Frameworks for Large-Scale Social Media Mining

Learn to build tools and frameworks for large-scale social media mining, focusing on creating data infrastructure for COVID-19 research using Twitter data. Gain insights on challenges, solutions, and best practices.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Mining the Deep Sea

Exploring deep-sea mining for minerals to support a low-carbon economy, balancing potential benefits against environmental risks and comparing with land-based mining to inform decision-making.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk