[Turing-Southampton] CDT-NGCM seminar - 21 February 2020 with Dr Adam Hill

[Susan Davies]

***apologies if you receive this more than once***

Circulated on behalf of Andres Juttner

Our next CDT-NGCM seminar will be on 21 February 2020; the speaker will be Dr Adam Hill.


Astrophysicist to Data Scientist: My journey from academia into commercial and pro-bono data science

I graduated with a PhD in Astrophysics in 2006 and worked as a researcher at multiple labs around the world for the next 9 years. During my time at Stanford University I was exposed to the start-ups and innovations that were happening in Silicon Valley around machine learning and data science. Seeing an opportunity to enhance both my science and my future career options I began learning some of these new skills and technologies. In 2015 I became a full-time data scientist at a new start-up. In this talk I will describe my journey and some of the lessons learned along the way including how to make the transition from academia, how to stand-out to data science recruiters and what is "data science". A significant part of my life post academia has also been in doing voluntary data science and so I will go through how data science projects can be successfully developed and delivered to the third-sector.
Dr Adam Hill

Dr Adam Hill is lead data scientist at HAL24K working with client projects to deliver smart-city and smart-infrastructure solutions.  He graduated with a degree in Astrophysics from UCL and subsequently earned his PhD from the University of Southampton. He has worked as a professional research scientist at multiple institutions around the world including Stanford University and was awarded a prestigious Marie-Curie Research Fellowship. In 2015, Adam, joined  HAL24K as the first data scientist in the company and has been directly involved in developing many of the products and solutions HAL24K now delivers to its clients. Additionally he has been directly involved in growing the HAL24K data science team to a diverse group of ten talented data scientists as well as developing education and training relationships within the UK. Adam is also a core volunteer within the DataKind UK community working to help NGOs, charities and the third sector access data science talent and exploit modern data science and AI technology. Most recently Adam was one of the first people to be made a Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence encouraging data science entrepreneurship and innovation within the UK academic environment.

https://www.phys.soton.ac.uk/people/abh

CDT-NGCM seminars are an opportunity to get together and chat over lunch, exchange experiences and enjoy interesting talks. We welcome attendees to register from across the university.

This CDT-NGCM seminar will take place in the Mountbatten Seminar Room, Building 53 Room 4025 on Highfield Campus.
The CDT- NGCM Seminar - 21 February 2020 with Dr Adam Hill<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cdt-ngcm-seminar-21-february-2020-with-dr-adam-hill-tickets-91637729917> is now open for you to register via Eventbrite. Spaces are limited so please book your place early!

Please see the event details on Eventbrite for further information; lunch will be provided at 12:30, with the seminar starting at 13:00. Once you have booked your place please email cdt-ngcm at soton.ac.uk<mailto:cdt-ngcm at soton.ac.uk> if you have any specific dietary requirements.

Regards, Andreas, Peter, Ed and Jacqui

[cid:part8.8228B292.019EFB1C at soton.ac.uk]

Event URL: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cdt-ngcm-seminar-21-february-2020-with-dr-adam-hill-tickets-91637729917


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/turing-southampton/attachments/20200129/a91028b3/attachment-0001.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image004.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 23304 bytes
Desc: image004.jpg
Url : http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/turing-southampton/attachments/20200129/a91028b3/attachment-0001.jpg