Conference Video: Widad Machmouchi, PhD - 6 Lessons In 6 Years as a Data Scientist at Microsoft
This is Widad Machmouchi, PhD’s tech talk at the WiDS Puget Sound Conference 2020. Enjoy!
ABSTRACT:
In this talk, I share some of the lessons I have learned as a data scientist in Bing and AI Platform, working on measurement and A/B experimentation. I discuss how to build your technical skills as an data scientist, how to communicate and work with partner teams, and how to grow your career. I provide some tips and tools to achieve your goals, along with what I could have done better in the past few years.
Widad Machmouchi is a Principal Data Science Manager in AI Platform at Microsoft where she works in the A&E group focusing on A/B experimentation and success measurement. Widad develops tools and techniques that enable teams to make data-driven decisions, like A/B experimentation, metric development, and user behavior modeling. She works with multiple teams like Bing, VSCode and Azure Machine Learning, applying these techniques to drive user growth. Widad holds a PhD in Theoretical Computer Science from the University of Washington, Seattle and is a co-founder of a technology hardware start-up.