Event: Monday Feb 28
5:15 meet+greet,
5:30-6:15pm talk with Q+A
6:15-7:15pm meeting of people interested in taking on the organization of DSN for the future. All are welcome.

Zoom link: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/97300898035 

Machine learning specialists at Amazon Web Services help customers make the best use of machine learning resources on the cloud to solve business challenges, improve operations, and promote innovation. Join us for a look at the exciting tools and interesting problems data scientists get to work with, in a talk by Senior Machine Learning Specialist, Emily Webber. We will also hear about Webber's path to becoming a data scientist, while keeping connected to academia and providing mentorship.

Speaker bio: Emily Webber is currently a Senior Machine Learning Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She is also an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and a machine learning mentor at 1871, a startup incubator. Webber earned her MS from the University of Chicago in 2017, where she interned at the Data Science for Social Good summer fellowship. Webber has worked for IssueVoter, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and simMachines (ML software company). She is a keynote speaker at Amazon Web Services, and has a YouTube video channel on SageMaker with 150,000+ views. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQc8Itd4UTs&list=PLhr1KZpdzukcOr_6j_zmSrvYnLUtgqsZz)