2020-2021

My name is Fatima Zahra Abid. I was born and raised in Verona, Italy. I'm Italian and Moroccan and since I was born, every year, I visit my family in Morocco. I've attented Social sciences in High School and I become very passionate about Sociology, Anthropology and Social Psychology. I decided to accomplish a Bachelor and a Master's Degree in Sociology and Research Methods in order to achieve theoretical and practical tools to question and understand social phenomena. My great interest is to observe and analyze social products from several social contexts. Considering the opportunities, due to technological breakthrough and innovation, in the social research field, I become interested and enthusiast in deepen the field of Data Science in order to further investigate and understand actual phenomena.

I was born in 1994 in a small town between Naples and Salerno. My passion for Physics and Mathematics led me to obtain a master’s degree in Physics at University of Naples ‘Federico II’ in 2019. The thesis concerned the application of the physics of Complex Systems to chromosome 3D architecture. After the degree I won a scholarship in the USA for a three-month project about gravitational wave signals. When I came back, I got a job in the financial area, and I have spent one year working as Analyst at Deloitte in support of the Market Risk Office of Intesa Sanpaolo. The data drove me in all my experiences. So, to deepen the analysis of big data and learn how to use them to extract useful knowledge in different areas, from scientific to economic ones, I decided to attend the Big Data Analytics & Social Mining Master. After the Master I would like to work as a Data Scientist in R&D departments.

After a Bachelor in Biomolecular Sciences and Technologies in Trento and after working in Novartis on a Data Analysis project, I decided to combine my biological background with my passion for computer science by enrolling in the Master in Quantitative and Computational Biology. Here, studying subjects such as Biostatistics and Machine Learning, I discovered a passion for data analysis, data visualization, and predictive model building. After taking part in several Data Science projects related to Biology, one of which is my Master thesis focused on applying novel feature selection methods for the discovery of new antimicrobial targets, I enrolled in the Master in Big Data & Social Analytics to strengthen and expand my knowledge in the world of Big Data and start my career in the field of Data Science.

Born in Pietrasanta (LU) in 1994, after the bachelor’s degree in Business and Economics at University of Pisa, I moved to Rome where I graduated from LUISS Guido Carli in Economics and Finance. I Worked as consultant at a Big Four firm. I decided to enroll in the Master because I believe that in today's society, reshaped by Big Data, it is necessary to acquire useful tools to disentangle information from noise, in order to offer decisive support to industrial and research projects.

I earned both my Bachelor and my Master in Philosophy at the University of Salerno. During my studies, my main area of interest has been comtemporary philosophy with a focus on the phenomenological movement, a tradition that has inspired me to always seek an interdisciplinary approach. In this spirit I chose to attend this Master, convinced not only by the importance of acquiring skills in the fields of management and analysis of data, but also by the philosophical relevance of many of the questions data science gives rise to. The lectures and the seminars held within the Master have strengthened my conviction showing the richness of the spectrum of disciplines and themes involved in working with data.

After earning professional experience working in graphic designing, I decided to study European Languages and Literatures at the university of Naples “L’Orientale”, graduating in 2017 with my bachelor’s degree.
Attracted by the world of linguistic research I then moved to Bologna to further my studies. In 2020 I concluded a master's degree in Linguistics with a thesis in Computational Linguistics.
The interest for the multiple possibilities and applications of the subject opened up by a computational approach to linguistics pushed me to collaborate on the project “Italian FrameNet” and to make my master thesis about it. Once I completed my job on the project, I made up my mind to apply to the Master in Big Data Analytics & Social Mining in order to learn notions of computer science useful to the processing of linguistic data.

I am a philologist and translator of East Asian Languages (Japanese and Chinese), my are of interest is of course Natural Language Processing.
My higher education begun back in 2014, when I started my BA in Language culture and society of Asia and Mediterranean Africa at Ca'Foscari university of Venice. During my last year at Ca'Foscari, I was bestowed with the Monbukagakushō scholarship by the Japanese government, which allowed me to spend one year at Osaka University; there, I continued my research on pre-modern Japanese Literature. Finally, in 2019 I completed an MA in Japanese literature at SOAS University of London.
I started teaching myself Python programming and Data Science at the beginning of the pandemic and I immediatly fell in love with transformer NN and other language models, with their ability to solve natural language understanding and translation tasks. This is what convinced me to pursue a career in Data Science.

Driven by great passion, I enjoy working on projects which require data analysis to support business decisions.
I decided to enroll in the master's program, fascinated by the great opportunities emerging from Data Analytics tools.
After graduation, I had the chance to work in consulting services in the financial industry (experience: 1.5 yrs), in particular in Corporate Finance transactions, Financial Reporting (i.e. IFRS 17 Transition Project) and Fintech credit brokerage.
As a business economics student I worked on a thesis project on the topic of agency costs between management and shareholders, analyzing the relationship between the structure of managers' compensation and the tendency to short termism in investment choices.

I was born in Sicily in 1994. Since I was a kid, I've always been strongly interested in maths. However, after getting my high-school diploma in a science-oriented institute, I moved to Bologna to follow another passion - that is, the study of history and political thought. A couple years later, in 2019, I obtained a master's degree in Global Studies at the history department of Bologna's Alma Mater.
After that, I traveled and worked abroad for one year, both in France and in Australia. When I got back home, I decided to enroll to the master to learn new skills that could help me fully realize my background and aspiratons.

I graduated in Theoretical Physics at the University of Padova. In particular, I focused on the theoretical description of the so-called fundamental interactions, which are four "forces" which regulate all natural phenomena.
I am interested in Mathematics and Physics, as well as new technologies and how these modify society. Therefore, I decided to enroll in this course to develop the necessary skills to be an active part of the rapid changes occurring in our world, and to learn the tools to become a Data Scientist.