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(M.A.S. Data Science ’17)

Denis Bajic sees the Illinois Tech data science program as a key factor in his current professional success. He greatly appreciates its hands-on approach to solving actual problems using tools and...

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(M.A.S. DATA SCIENCE ’17)

Ying Wu recounts her experience in Illinois Tech’s data science program as the foundation for landing her first job after graduation. “The data science program provides students with in-depth computer...

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(M.S. COMPUTATIONAL DECISION SCIENCE AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH ’18)

Nithya Mahadevan (M.S. CDSOR ’18) was in her fifth year of working for Mu Sigma when she decided to go back to school to get her master’s degree. She had held increasingly responsible positions in...

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(M.A.S. DATA SCIENCE ’17)

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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(COMPUTER SCIENCE ’16)

Emily Warman (CS ’16) conducted research with Associate Professor Aron Culotta, the head of Illinois Tech’s Text Analysis in the Public Interest Lab, creating a reusable framework to predict the...

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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...

(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...

(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...

(Artificial Intelligence 2nd Year)

Ever since she started studying at Illinois Tech, Devyani Gauri wanted to do something that involved AI. Even though it wasn’t a major until 2019, AI has been one of Devyani’s biggest interests within...