Student Success Stories
Faculty of Information students are hired by companies and organizations including IBM, Autodesk, Ontario Digital Service, D2L, Microsoft, Toronto International Film Festival and Google. They’ve also founded their own startups and gone on to work in academia. Here are some of their stories:
Lorena Almaraz (MI, Class of 2022)
Lorena chose the Human-Centred Data Science concentration to pursue her interest in the policy of data science. She now works in AI governance at Thomson Reuters. “I essentially bring the policy to the technical teams and then represent the technical teams when we’re developing the policy,” she says. “It’s really fun.”
Niel Chah (PhD, Class of 2022)
Niel is putting his PhD to use as a Data Scientist with Microsoft’s Gaming Group. His Xbox team is based in Redmond, Washington but Chah works remotely from his hometown of Vancouver. As part of the data science group within gaming, he’s involved in natural language processing, using statistical techniques and models to help Xbox understand what users are saying.
Samantha Summers (CDP, Class of 2021)
Samantha puts to her MI and MMSt degrees to use at the ROM where she is Manager of Donor Circles overseeing renewal fundraising campaigns and the Member to Patron pipeline.
Jobs Site
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