How Data Science can help governments fight Covid-19: DSE Presents Chat with the Lab webinar

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When:  Mar 4, 2021 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM (ET)

How Data Science can help governments fight Covid-19: DSE Presents Chat with the Lab

Thu, Mar 4, 2021 1:00 PM EST


Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, it is critical to assess the impact of this pandemic on our society. Governments and businesses are looking to determine the implications of Covid-19 and how the economy and our societies will recover from this pandemic. Attend this session to learn how data scientists from IBM Data Science and AI Elite and Rolls Royce R² Data Labs are working together as part of the Emergent Alliance to analyze a broad set of health, economic, and behavioral data to provide new insights and practical applications for the global Covid-19 response.


Speakers



Mehrnoosh Vahdat
Data Scientist, IBM Data Science and AI Elite

Mehrnoosh is a Data Scientist on the IBM Data Science and AI Elite team. She has a PhD in the field of data science, with deep expertise in machine learning, data mining, and process mining methods for analysing multi-variate and time series data collected from users’ interactions. Mehrnoosh has consulted a variety of industries where she helped clients make better decisions to improve their business outcomes through data science.



Álvaro Corrales Cano
Data Scientist, IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software

Álvaro is a Data Scientist at IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software. With a background in Economics, he specializes in econometric techniques on causal inference, discrete choice models, time series and duration analysis. As a data scientist, his interests also span NLP, deep learning and Bayesian networks. Alvaro has several years of experience as a data scientist and consultant helping clients in the banking, FinTech and air transport sectors.
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