In Conversation With Neil Heffernan, Professor Of Computer Science At Worcester Polytechnic Institute

March 24, 2021

Written By

Sejuti Das

For this week’s director’s series, Analytics India Magazine got in touch with ASSISTments co-founder Neil Heffernan and asked:

What are your views on the booming data science education market?
How does a university instrument a data science and analytics course? What sort of changes universities are required to bring post-pandemic?
How can governments encourage more students to select data science subjects? What role do corporations play in the same?
What are the major obstacles data science and analytics education are facing currently?
What is the prospect of AI and big data analytics education in the future?
Who should seek a career in data science? What does the future look like for someone who embarks on it at this time?

Find the answers here.

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ASSISTments is a free public service operated jointly by Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the ASSISTments Foundation.

‍The ASSISTments Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization sponsored by Worcester Polytechnic Institute created in 2019.

‍Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a 501(c)(3) non profit created in 1865.

‍The ASSISTments Project work at WPI is led by Professor Neil Heffernan.

‍The ASSISTments Foundation is led by Cristina Heffernan.