Career Ready Data Science &

Data Engineering
Bashir Mohammed, PhD

Computational Research Division

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley California
USA
 About Me
01 Personal profile
✓ Experienced AI and ML Engineer with over Ten years of experience
across Network Operations Research, Cloud computing, Financial
Services and Academia.

02 Work experience
✓ Currently working as a Postdoc on a US DOE project at Berkeley
Lab. (Deep Learning and AI High-Performance Networks project
(Self-Driving Networks)).
03 Achievements
✓ Endorsed by the UK government as a World Leading Exceptional
Talent in Digital Technology - 2020
✓ Currently an AI Coach at Codecademy - 2021

04 Education
✓ Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Bradford. UK - 2018
✓ MSc Control Systems, University of Sheffield. UK - 2012
Dr Bashir Mohammed ✓
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B.Eng. Electrical & Computer Engineering. FUT Minna Nigeria - 2006
Intern at Rolls-Royce UTC Sheffield , UK - 2011

Postdoctoral Research Scientist at https://bashirmohd.github.io

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
@BashirMohd100

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bashir-mohammed/
What is Data Science and Machine Learning?
Data Science
• The field of taking data and
transforming it into meaningful
information that can help us make
decisions.
Machine Learning
• Machine learning is the science of
getting computers to act without
being explicitly programmed.

Domain Expertise
• The particular set of knowledge
that someone cultivates and brings
with them in order to understand
their data. 3
Data Scientist and Data Engineer

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How to become a Data Scientist

Taken from DataCamp

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• STEP 1: Get Good at Stats, Maths & ML • STEP 2: Learn to Code

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• STEP 3: Understand Databases • STEP 4 : Master Data Cleaning and Munging

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• STEP 5: Level up with Big Data • STEP 6 : Practice and meet fellow DS

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• STEP 7: Internships, bootcamps, Job • STEP 8 : Follow, engage with the community

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Thanks for listening

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