Zicklin Grad Students Take Top Spot in Pitney Bowes Data Challenge - Zicklin School of Business

Nearly five dozen students from Baruch College and the Zicklin School of Business got to show off their data-crunching skills recently when they participated in the Baruch College – Pitney Bowes Data Challenge, held on May 1. The winning team of Zicklin graduate students -- Drace (Yilei) Zhan (MS Statistics, '20), Nishtha Ram (MS Quantitative Methods & Modeling, '21), Huimin Chen (MS Information Systems, '21), Kang Li (MS QMM, '20), and Rosario Campoverde (MBA, '20) -- outperformed 50 other undergraduate and graduate students across Baruch and Zicklin to take first place. The competition was the culmination of a year-long collaboration among Pitney Bowes and the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics, the Graduate Career Management Center, and the Starr Career Development Center. The partnership included seminars held throughout the year on machine learning, design thinking, marketing analytics, and other topics, presented by Pitney Bowes data scientists; and a free bootcamp on Python and AWS that was led by Zicklin professors. It was funded by a $10,000 grant from the NYC/CUNY Workforce Development Initiative.