Meet the Alumni

 
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Harsheel Singh Soin

SEAS MS Data Science 2019
Currently a Data Scientist at Audible, Inc. in New York
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  • Previous internships and jobs:
    - Research Assistant - Data Science at Audible, Inc. (Summer & Fall, 2018) (Newark, NJ);
    - Software Developer at Capillary Technologies Pvt Ltd (Summer, 2016) (Bengaluru, India)

  • Brief Description of your current job:
    Working in the content vertical under Audible Data Science: predicting content quality metrics and identifying drivers of high-quality content for marketing, acquisition and recommendation purposes

  • Advice for college students interested in working in your field:
    It's important to stay up-to-date with latest tools & techniques, particularly in a broad field like data science. Regular algorithmic and competitive coding practice is also recommended, on platforms like LeetCode and HackerRank. In addition to academic projects and assignments, it's also useful to pick-up hobby/side projects to learn new concepts or to broaden your data science portfolio. It also helps to follow data science blogs on platforms like KDnuggets and Medium.

  • What was your favorite part of CDSS? :)
    The incredibly talented people I got to interact with and learn from, along with the advice and support from a vast alumni network.

  • Anything else you'd like to add?
    I've seen the society grow rapidly, both in terms of its size as well as the diverse pool of events, workshops and seminars conducted. It's been a privilege to be a part of such an amazing group, and I look forward to staying in touch for many years to come! I wish the best to CDSS, and hope it continues growing!

 

TaeYoung Choi

DSI MS Data Science 2019
Currently a Data Scientist at Conde Nast in New York

  • Brief Description of your current job:
    Building data science tools for various projects such as KPI forecasting, personalized content recommendation, subscription propensity modeling and consumer segmentation/targeting that are scalable to multiple Conde Nast's brands.

  • Advice for college students interested in working in your field:
    Learn and search for different data science tools. It is often the case that you can't implement everything from scratch. If you understand resources and tools that are available to you, then you can build data science solution that suits your application more effectively.

  • What was your favorite part of CDSS? :)
    Informative newsletters (TaeYoung was in charge of them while he was here!)

 
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Rogers Jeffrey Leo John

SEAS MS Data Science 2015
Currently a Graduate Student at UW-Madison, Co-founder DataChat.ai
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  • Brief Description of your current job:
    Research and develop new tools, techniques for data exploration, visualization and data analysis.

  • What was your favorite part of CDSS? :)
    Talks and workshops

 

Dhruv Purushottam

CC BA CS + Math 2016
Currently a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir in New York
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  • Previous internships and jobs:
    - Spotify (Android)
    - KPCB/LendingClub (Backend)

  • Brief Description of your current job:
    Working on the client-side software engineer/data engineer

 

JAKE Snyder

SEAS MS Data Science 2018
Currently a Customer Facing Data Science at DataRobot in New York
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  • Previous internships and jobs:
    - Data Scientist at Summer Road LLC
    - Data Scientist at Revelio Labs

  • Brief Description of your current job:
    I help customers use our automated machine learning platform to execute their AI strategy.

  • Advice for college students interested in working in your field:
    There is no one data scientist position. Pick a subset of the field you enjoy and focus on that. You can always expand or switch later.

  • What was your favorite part of CDSS? :)
    Community!

 

Lucas Schuermann

SEAS BS Computer Science 2019
Currently a Founding Partner at Qu Capital in New York
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  • Previous internships and jobs:
    - Summer Researcher at Wolfram
    - Quantitative Strategies Summer Intern at Goldman Sachs
    - Software Engineering Intern at Google X (Robotics)

  • What was your favorite part of CDSS? :)
    Other board members!

  • Anything else you'd like to add?
    http://lvs.io/about

 

Jillian Knoll

CC BA Computer Science 2017
Currently in San Francisco, CA
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  • What was your favorite part of CDSS? :)
    Having a captive audience of peers to answer data science what-if questions!

 

Schinria Islam

MA - GSAS Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences 2016
Currently a People Research Scientist at Uber Technologies, Inc. in San Francisco, CA
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  • Previous internships and jobs:
    - Social Science Research Coordinator at Stanford Graduate School of Business Behavioral Lab

  • Brief Description of your current job:
    I conduct mixed-methods research on a team whose goal is to understand and improve the Uber employee experience. We have 20k+ employees in our corporate, technology, and operations functions globally (aka I'm not analyzing data on drivers since they are independent contractors) :)

  • Advice for college students interested in working in your field:
    Don't freak out too much about finding a job while you're in school. Focus on learning as much as you can, improving yourself, and maintaining your physical and mental health - including your sense of self-worth. In most cases, there will be time to find a job after you graduate, so while everyone around you is panicking about the job market... try your best to not get caught up in it.

  • What was your favorite part of CDSS? :)
    Being surrounded by brilliant students who had different backgrounds, interests, and skillsets from me.

 

Ashwath rajan

MS Computer Science 2013
Currently a President, CTO, and Cofounder at Stockwell in San Francisco, CA

  • Previous internships and jobs:
    Product management at Google