Agents: Human, Rational and Intelligent by Sabelo Jupiter

Presentation Description

An attempt at a comprehensive deep dive into the framework of Artificial Intelligence from the perspective of the work of Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. This will be a structured deep dive into the conceptual and technical foundations of Artificial Intelligence, guided by what is widely regarded as the definitive textbook in the field. The talk examines AI not as a collection of isolated techniques, but as a unified framework that at root is the study of ourselves as rational conscious entities.

Presentation Details

Date:
11/11/2025
Time:
12:00 PM
Location:
Downstairs Classroom

Presenter Biography

Sabelo Jupiter
data scientist with strong expertise in machine learning, cloud data engineering, and applied AI. Built and deployed large-scale data pipelines and ML models across domains including financial analysis, fraud detection, and natural language processing. Skilled in Python, SQL, and AWS (Lambda, Redshift, Glue, Step Functions), I combine hands-on engineering with deep theoretical grounding in probability, statistics, and machine learning. My main strength lies in my grounding in mathematics and personal study of physics, which provides a rigorous foundation for my work in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Pulling from probability theory, linear algebra, optimization, and mechanics, he brings a intuition for modeling complex systems and formal reasoning. He has experience with entity resolution, predictive modeling, survival/hazard models, and deep learning architectures, as well as MLOps practices for scalable deployment. Beyond implementation, Sabelo actively engages with the theoretical side of ML, studying Bayesian inference, statistical learning theory, and geometric deep learning. He has also contributed to projects involving economic impact modeling, OCR and handwriting recognition, and NLP pipelines for document summarization and analysis. With a strong foundation in mathematics, data engineering, and AI research.