Event organized and hosted by IDEAS Trainees, Niharika Sravan and Michael Zevin. On March 31st, 2017 IDEAS hosted a Data Science Discussion Panel with several data science consultants from Clarity Insights. Clarity Insights is the largest consulting company in the US that focuses exclusively on data strategy, engineering, science and visualization. The panel discussed data […]
Events
Winter Quarter Machine Learning Meet-Up: Larry Birnbaum
Event organized and hosted by IDEAS Trainees, Niharika Sravan and Michael Zevin. On February 23, 2017 IDEAS hosted Professor Larry Birnbaum, of Northwestern University. Larry is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, and is co-director of the Intelligent Information Laboratory, which has the mission of making information access relevant to the specific moment […]
Spreading the Word: IDEAS at TGS’ Annual IGEN Tour
November 3-5, 2016, The Graduate School (TGS) at Northwestern hosted its annual Introduction to Graduate Education at Northwestern (IGEN). This fully-funded, two-day visit to the Northwestern campuses is aimed at rising juniors and seniors, from diverse backgrounds, interested in pursuing STEM education at the doctoral level. Two groups, with a total of about 15 students […]
Fall Quarter’s Inaugural Machine Learning Meetup: Dr. Chris Greer
Event organized and hosted by IDEAS Trainees, Niharika Sravan and Michael Zevin. The first Machine Learning Meetup speaker of the academic year was Dr. Chris Greer, Senior Associate Data Scientist at KPMG. He was the ideal speaker for this inaugural Machine Learning Meetup organized by the IDEAS program, as Chris was previously an astrophysicist. He received […]