Bonjour à tous! I’m Dilbar Isakova, currently living and studying in Paris as I’m doing my master studies(M2) at CentraleSupélec. I’m an Erasmus Mundus scholar in Big Data Management and Analytics, but my journey into data science truly began when I met Dr. Jacob Reidhead. I had a great experience of working with Dr. Reidhead at KIMEP University as his research and teaching assistant. During that time, I dove into data science fundamentals such as doing data entry, cleaning, and visualization in R, and even taking on advanced tasks like statistical analysis, NLP, and social network analysis with Python.

Now, as a master’s student in big data, I’m building on those skills through exciting projects like facial verification using Autoencoders and ResNet18 at the CentraleSupeléc’s Lab and going to publish own research paper soon. Dr. Reidhead’s passion and guidance sparked my own interest for data science, and his mentorship gave me the confidence to pursue a career where I can turn data into useful solutions. So, I think, I surely can say that working with Dr. Reidhead was life-changing 🙂