Dr Liang Wang announces the release of his new book titled OCaml Scientific Computing: Functional Programming in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, co-authored by Dr Jianxin Zhao and Professor Richard Mortier. The book examines the mechanisms of modern analytics, and is available for general purchase from 17 April 2022.
In the book, Dr Wang details how programmers can write code as concise as Python programming language, yet as fast as C, but with advanced features inherited from the functional programming language OCaml, including static type checking. It covers fundamental numerical techniques which are suitable for undergraduate study, from solving ordinary differential equations, linear algebra, to advanced topics such as algorithmic differentiation.
OCaml Scientific Computing focusses on the numeric processing libraries that Dr Wang has developed in OCaml for engineering and scientific computing. It explores how OCaml can be used for the rapid and safe development of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. The book draws on use cases from ML and AI, before delving into how OCaml can be deployed at scale, using parallel, distributed, and accelerated frameworks to gain all the advantages of cloud computing environments.
Dr Wang is Senior Researcher at the University of Cambridge, Chief Scientific Officer at AI-enabled data knowledge management firm iKVA, and Principal AI Architect at Nokia. Co-author, Jianxin Zhao, is a PhD graduate from the University of Cambridge, and Professor Richard Mortier, is Professor in Computing and Human-Data Interaction at the University of Cambridge and co-founder of iKVA.
Dr Wang said: “This book is for anyone who is interested in exploring the world of functional programming and scientific computing. Many people are curious about the underlying mechanisms of modern data analytics and how functional programming can be applied in this field. With this book, I hope to give readers a thorough understanding of this topic, educating them about what happens behind the scenes when they are using these type of data services, such as image classification, computer vision, and recommender systems.”
OCaml Scientific Computing is published by Springer International Publishing.