Yorgos Askalidis, Instagram | Tuesday, November 19 | 4-5pm | Buttrick Hall, Room 101
Demystifying Data Science Roles
Yorgos is a senior data scientist at Instagram in NYC, where he works with the interfaces team to help inform data driven decisions across Instagram web and lite. Before Instagram, he was at Spotify in product and finance roles. Yorgos’s background is in Mathematics and Computer Science. He got his PhD from Northwestern University and his thesis focused on data driven understanding of online review platforms.
In his free time, he likes to blog about data, soccer or data about soccer. You can follow him at
www.medium.com/@yaskalidis