Title: Graduate Students’ Group Discussion with Dr Samarjit Das (Bosch Labs): What Coding Skills do I need for a Data Science/Computer Vision Job?
Abstract: Talk to Samarjit about what skills (coding and otherwise) are needed to get a good Data Science/Computer Vision job. Sam graduated from ECpE in 2010 with a Ph.D. He worked for Prof. Namrata Vaswani and only wrote code in MATLAB during his phd. Feel free to email Prof Vaswani at namrata@iastate.edu if you want to connect with him later.
Bio: Samarjit Das is the Lead Principal Scientist and Senior Manager at Bosch Research Pittsburgh. He leads a research group that concentrates on the interface between artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT). He is also responsible for Bosch’s research collaborations with the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, NASA-JPL/Caltech, NASA Ames and New York University. Dr. Das received B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering from IIT Guwahati, India in 2006 and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University in 2010. Prior to joining Bosch in 2013, he was a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Dr. Das is the recipient of the Carnegie Science Award’21 in innovation and Young Alumni Award’22 from ISU College of Engineering.