This year, the sixth year of the MSDS program, is the first year the School was able to award need-based financial aid. The School of Data Science is giving over $150,000.

For their capstone project, James Howerton and Ben Schenck, graduates of the first cohort of the School of Data Science, assembled and distributed environmental sensors throughout Charlottesville, creating the first sensor network with Free and Open Source technologies in the region.

Feiyin Wu (MSDS '16) works at Nor1, a technology leader in the hotel industry, as a Senior Data Analyst/Data Product owner.

Oretha Domfeh, Chirag Kulkarni, Ronak Rijhwani, Arshiya Ansari, and Surbhi Singh, all students in the incoming 2021 MSDS cohort, landed incredible, competitive internships this summer. With the first ever pilot program, they are all able to work these internships and begin the MSDS program.

Daniel Mietchen, researcher at the School of Data Science, and Jundong Li, researcher with a joint appointment in the School of Engineering and School of Data Science received a grant from the University of Virginia’s Global Infectious Diseases Institute to quantify the impact of data sharing on COVID-19.

Varshini Sriram has always had a passion and a mind for understanding science and engineering at a deeper level. Throughout her time at UVA's School of Data Science, she developed an excitement for natural language processing (NLP). Now, she uses her NLP skills – in addition to the other tools she learned at UVA – in her role as a data scientist at U.S. Bank.

This is the question Eric Field, Professor in the School of Data Science and in the School of Architecture at UVA, asks his students throughout the semester in his course called Data Visualization. Almost all our MSDS students take his course before graduation. His prompt for this semester’s final project was only the word, “viral.”

Since COVID-19 hit, Brendan Abraham has been working to create a tool that will help to inform policymakers during this pandemic. 

In response to COVID-19, iTHRIV, a collaboration of public and private institutions, created the Health Status Registry for any Virginia resident, healthy or sick, with the goal of having a more complete picture of the virus in Virginia.

Aditi Rajagopal is a dual degree student in the Darden School of Business and the School of Data Science at UVA, passionate about the intersection of data science and business. She will graduate with both her MBA and MSDS in May of 2021.