University of Montana

Annie Qu was trained as a computational mathematician and had not analyzed data until she was introduced to statistics in graduate school. Suddenly, all the numbers and programming were meaningful and there were interesting stories behind them. This was just the beginning of her journey in data science research. Since then, she has worked on tensor learning for optical breast cancer imaging data, network data, deep learning, active learning, crowdsourcing, and personalized medicine. Doing something new and cutting-edge has always been exciting for her and keeps her motivated.