I am drawn to problems that involve creative and analytical thinking. Particularly, I am interested in using data to extract insights and tell stories. I am currently working as a research data scientist in the interdisciplinary Health Aware Bits (HABits) Lab, affiliated with the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern Fienberg School of Medicine, under the guidance of Prof Nabil Alshurafa. My work here entails data wrangling, modeling and visualizations to derive data-driven insights about human behavior. I am also experienced at communicating complex analyses and findings through storytelling and visualizations.

My background is in Computer Science. After briefly working as a software developer in Dubai, I wanted to make use of my qualitative, quantitative and programming skills by transitioning to Data Science. In order to start my journey as a Data Scientist, I enrolled for a 12 week intensive bootcamp offered at Metis Chicago in the Summer of 2017. My time at Metis helped me to hone my programming, statistcal and analytical skills, which are key to being a good data scientist.

I will be posting my data science projects and highlighting interesting things I learn along the way.