Kate Farrahi joins Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London

Katayoun (Kate) Farrahi has joined the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK as a lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor in North America).

Kate is an Idiap alumnus, and got her PhD at EPFL in 2011 working at the Social Computing Group. Her research at Goldsmiths will be focused on data science, particularly topics related to computational social science, big data applications, and machine learning. She will also be involved in designing courses for the new data science masters program which is expected to launch in October 2014.

Congratulations to Kate!