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Chicago is a world-class city full of culture, history, and excitement. Avery Peck says studying in Chicago added to her student experience while enrolled at ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Institute of Technology. “I love...
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Working to Get Ahead
(M.S. CS ’21)Bo Zhu was working 11 hours a day, six days a week, as a Java developer when he was looking for opportunities to expand relevant professional knowledge, which proved tricky during a global pandemic...
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Pursuing Interdisciplinary Passions
(CS ’02)As the chief health and innovation officer at Commure, health care's first intelligent operating system built to accelerate empathetic innovation and reimagine care delivery, Saurabha Bhatnagar, M.D...
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When the White House Calls
(Ph.D. CS ’06)A call from the Federal Communications Commission interrupted Eric Burger’s career in research and development and academia to become the Chief Technical Officer of the Federal Communications...
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Shooting for the Stars
(CS 1st Year)Kaya Jones aspired to hone her computing skills the summer before beginning her college experience as a computer science major. She found her chance with NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation...
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Further on the Path to AI Leadership
(AI/M.A.S. AI ’22)Maggie Barclay attended the virtual CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Conference in September of 2020, where she heard about the internship opportunities that IBM had to offer. She applied for the Extreme Blue...
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SoReMo Fellow Explores Diversity in Admissions
(CS 3rd Year)Alisha Khan says her first interaction with data science and statistics research came through the Socially Responsible Modeling, Computation, and Design (SoReMo) initiative, a semester-long fellowship...
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Realizing the Power of Data
(M.A.S. DSC ’21)Arika Ho says her career goals include becoming a successful data scientist in the domains of journalism, marketing/public relations, and public policy. Optimizing a recommendation system for news...
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Flexibility, Breadth, and Research Opportunities
(M.A.S. DATA SCIENCE '18)Megha Lokanadham selected ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Institute of Technology’s Data Science program for many reasons. She says, “The reason I chose ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Tech over other schools was because of the flexibility of the...
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Bringing Data to Life
(M.A.S. DATA SCIENCE '18)Vinod Rao chose ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Institute of Technology because of the Data Science program’s uniqueness. The hands-on faculty provide a personable experience to the individual student, the departments...