August 26, 2015
We have a great lineup of speakers from industry and academia for our Data Science Lecture Series. The lectures are held Fridays, 1:00–2:30 p.m. in 190 Doe Library (one-hour lectures followed by 30 minutes for Q&A).
Please keep an eye on our Events page to learn more about each of these lectures as detailed information becomes available.
Fall 2015 Data Science Lecture Series Speakers
| September 4 | Nathaniel Smith, Computational Fellow, Berkeley Institute for Data Science |
| September 11 | Jonathan Taylor, Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University |
| September 18 | Jeremy Freeman, Neuroscientist, Janelia Research Campus |
| Travis Oliphant, CEO and Co-Founder, Continuum Analytics | |
| September 25 | Sangram Ganguly, Principal Investigator and Senior Research Scientist at NASA/BAERI |
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| October 2 | Mike Beman, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced |
| October 9 | Nemanja Spasojevic, Director of Data Science, Lithium Technologies, Inc. |
| October 16 | Stephan Hoyer, Data Scientist, The Climate Corporation |
| October 23 | Aman Ahuja, Freelance Data Consultant, DataKind, The Data Guild |
| October 30 | Lorena Barba, Associate Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, George Washington University |
| November 6 | Carl Pennypacker, Affiliate, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Physics Division |
| November 13 | Wally Lo Faro, Data Scientist, MasterCard |
| November 20 | Nancy Nersessian, Regents' Professor of Cognitive Science (Emerita), Georgia Institute of Technology; |
| Research Associate, Harvard University | |
| December 4 | Sandrine Dudoit, Professor, Biostatistics, UC Berkeley |
| December 11 | Chris Granger, Founder, Eve |
The BIDS Data Science Lecture Series is co-hosted by BIDS and the Data, Science, and Inference Seminar.
