Meet Andrew! He will graduate with his MSDS in 2021.
Pronouns: he, him
Q: Where is your hometown?
A: Knoxville, TN, USA
Q: What was your undergraduate degree (major), school, and year of graduation?
A: BS; BA Psychology, Appalachian State University, 2015
Q: Any post graduate degrees?
A: MA Experimental Psychology, Appalachian State University, 2017; MA Cognitive Psychology- Quantitative Concentration, University of Virginia, 2019
Q: If you worked full-time until recently, or are working now, please share your most recent/current employer and title?
A: University of Virginia, PhD Candidate in Cognitive Psychology- Quantitative Concentration
Q: What are you particularly interested in learning about data science?
A: One of my particular goals for the upcoming year is to learn how to apply neural network models to human brain data. Psychology and neuroscience research has a lot to gain through integration of modern artificial intelligence as a theoretical and analytic tool.
Q: How do you hope to use data science in a future career?
A: I plan on pursuing a career in data science after I finish my PhD. My current interests in applied data science are face recognition and computer vision. I would like to focus on leveraging techniques to make this class of algorithms more interpretable and more fair.
Q: What is a fun fact about yourself?
A: I love music. I have been playing drums for around 15 years, and I am an aspiring keyboard player (with so much left to learn!).