Student-Testimonials

Laurent Berder joined the Applied MSc in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence in 2015. In this interview, he will share his experience as a DSTI student and tell us more about his career path.  Tell us more about your professional background. Before I studied at DSTI, I used to have a different job, as I had been working in Human Resources for about 10 years. For years, I had responsibilities in HR Information System and HR Statistics, so when I decided to change to a more technical career, I thought Data Science made sense in a continuity of my [...]

Mohammed Ali (DSTI Alumni 2017), is the co-founder of Dainanahan, a research group specialised in the field of drug discovery, to build a group of computational tools that would aid drug researchers and pharmaceutical in their work. These tools are to include exploratory data analysis and data mining facilities as well as predictive analytics. Mohammed has also created a Mo Stock Analysis and Recommendation Tools (MoSART), which is a collection of stock analysis tools so trader can make a decision about certain stock. In this interview, he talks to us about his experience as an online student. Why did you choose to study [...]

This week's student spotlight introduces you to Vipin Kumar, student in the Applied MSc in Data Engineering programme. Tell us more about yourself. I came from Bangalore in India, and I have 12 years of software development experience in the Telecom industry, content delivery networks and video streaming technologies. Why did you choose DSTI? Coming from the cloud and large scale product development, I wanted to find a course that gives me deep understanding of the applied data engineering side. For instance, big data handling, analysis, machine learning and end to end cloud deployments and its related technologies. DSTI’s Applied [...]

Henry Mazhokota lives in Zimbabwe and decided to follow online the Applied MSc in Data Science. Today, Henry works as a Data Science Engineer at Steward Bank.  What is exactly your job at Steward Bank? I am in charge of product development using machine learning models, developing customer relationship management models, prdictive and big data analytics. What was your biggest takeaway from the program? At DSTI, I learned top of the art Big Data tools that include AWS, Hadoop, Apache Spark and SAS. Through the classes, I managed to write my AWS certification [...]

David Tribble is a former student from the Autumn 2016 cohort. After gathering years work experience in Telecommunications Management and Engineering, he decided to go back to school and acquire skills in Data Science. What compelled you to return to school after many years? I am a Californian, which means that I am the product of a culture that is constantly changing, reinventing itself, producing innovation and change with reckless disregard to conservative ideas like age. It is very common in California to return to school for a Master’s Degree or even PhD [...]

Nehmy Forbin is a former student from the Autumn 2017 cohort. Before joining DSTI, he served as captain in the French Air Force and was in charge of all forecasting for French aircrafts. Nehmy shares his experience at DSTI. Tell us about your current internship. I am currently doing my internship in an information system consulting firm. We develop the information systems of human resources for some companies and our customers ask to add Big Data offers in their systems. Therefore, my job is to find some ways to use big data techniques [...]

Nicolas Aguirre Dobernack (Spain) Applied MSc in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence  Spring 2017 - Online student I would like to start this essay by providing a small context of my background, my studies and my current work as well as how my studies in DSTI have driven an excellent career path for me. I always had passion for new technologies. I studied a superior degree in Telecommunications engineering in Spain, after which I completed an MSc in Electronic engineering. My final MSc project at that time brought a [...]