A snapshot of a summer at Knewton

First, a little background on me. At the start of my internship, I had just finished my second year as a PhD student in statistics at the University of Michigan. My research is split between modifying sequential decision making algorithms for uses in education and poking around in the nascent field of fairness in algorithms.

The Application Process

I can’t say if I over-prepared or prepared just enough, but I prepared a lot for the somewhat-surprisingly-long interview process that Knewton has for data science interns. …