Databricks University Alliance Panel | DAIS 2021

Kick off your summit with a panel discussion of educators on how and why they teach data science at scale. They will discuss approaches to teaching, managing virtual classrooms, and developing learning content.

Each speaker will give a ten minute overview of his or her work at their respective universities, followed by a moderated panel discussion focusing on how their instruction has evolved, what conceptual and technical content they focus on, what architecture they use for delivering the course, and best practices in instruction. Finally, we will wrap with an open Q&A session.

All of our panelists are part of the Databricks University Alliance, a program that provides complimentary assets to educators and students for teaching and learning these next-generation tools in both in-person and virtual classrooms. Learn more about the program here: https://databricks.com/university

REGISTER NOW (for FREE) on the Data + AI Summit site: https://databricks.com/dataaisummit/north-america-2021

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** Kalyani Deshmukh, Research Assistant at San Jose State University

Research Assistant, Teacher's Assistant, and a Graduate Student, Kalyani is pursuing different roles and responsibilities in her everyday life. Her research projects range from web mapping of geospatial data to develop the Digital Divide Assessment map for broadband availability across California state to Genome assembly using NLP. In her teacher's assistant role, she is mentoring 50+ students in effectively coping with the machine learning coursework. Conducting demos, designing assignments, and grading to provide a better learning experience.
She has over 5+ years of experience working as a Data Visualization Expert and Data Engineer with two organizations. Kalyani likes to work on large-scale data problems, she plans to work as a Senior Data Engineer after her graduation.

** Benjamin Harvey, Ph.D., Research Professor | Data Science Leader

Dr. Harvey holds a Cryptologic Computer Science Certificate from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, a B.S. in Pre-Medicine/Computer Science from Mississippi Valley State University, a Masters in Computer Science from BSU, and a D.Sc. from BSU’s Department of Computer Science. Dr. Harvey is also a Faculty Researcher at The Johns Hopkins University in the Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Biostatistics Department.

** Donghwa Kim, Partner Solutions Architect at Databricks/Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland

Donghwa Kim is a Partner Solutions Architect at Databricks, and also an adjunct professor at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) teaching data science and Apache Spark for graduate students.

He has over 20 years of IT experience which includes enterprise architect roles to lead the design and implementation of data and analytics platforms at Veterans Affairs (VA) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

** Lloyd Palum, Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer, Vnomics/ Adjunct Instructor Georgen Institute of Data Science

Lloyd Palum, has more than 25 years of experience in signal processing and software development. As the CTO at Vnomics he is leading the development of edge analytics and machine learning technologies in commercial transportation applications. Lloyd has recently developed and taught a unique new course offering at the University of Rochester on applying Data Science at Scale in the development of Data Intensive Applications.