More than 60 students on the MSc Data Science programme attended the annual Industry Day on Monday 28th November.
The event invites speakers from various sectors in industry to share their experiences with utilising machine learning, AI and data science for applications within their domain.
Dr Lisa Clark, Head of Data Science from Atos, gave the talk "Variety is the spice of Data Science", covering a wide range of projects with government agencies and businesses.
Dr Cass Zhao, University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science, talked about her PhD experience and how it helped her career as a data scientist and machine learning modeller. Joanna Hemingway, Team Lead of Data Visualisation and André Locher Data Engineering & Analytics Manager, gave a talk on how data science methods are used by Jet2 & Jet2holidays. Dr Aidan Peppin, Senior Researcher from Ada Lovelace Institute, gave the talk "Careers in social research and public policy", covering a unique perspective of the data science career.
A networking lunch was followed by a panel discussion and question and answer session at the end of the event. Subjects discussed ranged from the importance of learning from failures to key job interview questions.
Aidan Peppin, Dr Lisa Clark, Joanna Hemingway and André Locher took part in the panel discussion which was chaired by Dr Ziqi Zhang, Senior Lecturer and Programme Coordinator of the MSc in Data Science.
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| Pictured left to right are Dr Lisa Clark, Aidan Peppin, Joanna Hemingway, André Locher and Dr Ziqi Zhang |
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| The panel are pictured during the discussion (left to right) Aidan Peppin, Dr Lisa Clark, André Locher and Joanna Hemingway. |
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