Faculty: Science
Program: Master of Data Science
Year: 2021
Country: Nigeria
Taiwo Owoseni received her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at the Federal University of Technology, Akure. Her undying yearn for self-development pushed her to intern with Devcareers birthing her journey into Data Science. Driven by her curiosity for Data Science, she enrolled with AI Saturdays in Lagos- an active learning community dedicated to promoting Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Lagos. She explored this platform by networking with fellow AI and Data Science enthusiasts. Her passion for growth in the community made her volunteer to co-organize AI Saturdays in Lagos.
Taiwo has worked as a Data Analyst with OneHealth and Airtel Nigeria. She put her data-driven skills to use by creating informative reports for these organizations to make better decisions.
She interned with SKtime, a unified framework for machine learning with time series. She is passionate about creating Free and Open Source Softwares (FOSS). She continues to contribute to the expansion of the SKtime open source library. She also volunteers in the Sktime community council where she is involved in outreach and organizing virtual classes for users to learn about the importance of Sktime.
Taiwo hopes to apply her experience at UBC, to contribute to the development of useful open-source tools to make Data Science and AI easier to navigate in industries. Leveraging the pool of networks studying at UBC presents, she intends to connect with professionals and researchers to learn how Data Science tools can be improved to solve health and commercial industries’ problems.