Data Science Meets Combinatorics

As a lifelong computational scientist (and now data scientist) I have always been fascinated with numbers, especially lists and tables of things ( databases!). For example, I thought early in life that I wanted to be a Math major in college and study number theory so that I could learn all of the amazing ways to do cool stuff with numbers. But I also wanted to study the wonders of the Universe as an astronomer, so I went on to get a PhD in astrophysics! That career path allowed me to study and apply all of the disciplines that I enjoy: math, physics, astronomy, computational modeling, and data science! It was numbers all the time!