Building Skills from Scratch
Guoxuan Hao says the Illinois Tech data science program grants opportunities to intelligent students without strong backgrounds in data science or analytics to become top data scientists or data...
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(Applied Mathematics/Statistics/M.S. CDSOR 2nd Year)During the summer of 2019, Victoria Belotti spent a month in Scotland as part of a faculty-led study away program. She took two humanities/social science courses, and got to learn about Scottish...
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Summer with Big Data
(Computer Science/M.S. Data Science 4th Year)Anna Kong had no plans to take the summer off from her studies. “I really wanted to do research,” she says. “As a data science accelerated master’s student, I had worked with big data before, but I...
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Collaborative Efforts
(Applied Mathematics/Computer Science/M.A.S. Data Science 4th Year)Aleksei Sorokin says one of the biggest draws of Illinois Tech is the accessibility of professors. Although courses are demanding and challenging, the availability of faculty and tutors makes the...
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A Continuing Journey to Better Opportunities
(Ph.D. APPLIED MATHEMATICS ’17)In 2000 Julienne Kabre emigrated to Chicago from Burkina Faso in West Africa, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics. For nine years she owned a small business in the city...
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An Academic Path
(M.A.S. MATHEMATICAL FINANCE ’12/Ph.D. APPLIED MATHEMATICS ’16)Tao Chen was attracted to Illinois Tech for its Chicago location and drawn to the city for its position as a financial center. Another reason for his decision to attend Illinois Tech: renowned...
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A Solid Combination
(APPLIED MATHEMATICS ’09)After graduating from Illinois Tech, Kevin Ventullo earned a Ph.D. in pure mathematics at UCLA. He spent a year teaching at McGill University, but left academia to join Facebook in its Boston office...