DSI Faculty Roberta De Vito and Shekhar Pradhan will be leaving Brown at the end of the month after years of service to the Data Science Institute and Brown. We are so lucky to have had them as a part of our DSI community, and we wish them great success and joy in their future endeavors!
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Data Science Institute
Shekhar Pradhan
Lecturer in Data Science
Biography
Shekhar Pradhan holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has taught computer science, data science, and philosophy at a number of universities, most recently at Columbia University in their Applied Analytics program. He has also founded three start-ups over the years, leveraging his expertise in machine learning and natural language processing. Currently, his research focus is on investigating strategies for incorporating linguistic knowledge in deep learning frameworks for natural language processing.
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Shekhar Pradhan Joins DSI Faculty
DSI's newest Lecturer, Shekhar Pradhan, started at Brown July 1 and is taking on the role of Director of Graduate Studies as well as teaching our existing DATA 1050 (Data Engineering) and a new course on text analytics (coming spring 2023).
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