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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Earlier this month Lois Trautvetter and Michelle Paulsen attended the NRT Teams Annual Meeting 2016, and Future STEM Leaders Conference in Washington DC. The events, both co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the University of Maryland, brought together students, faculty, and program coordinators from 18 NSF Research Traineeship teams across the country. The gatherings featured […]
