Title: Data Scientist
Employer: Aquicore

Matt graduated from the IB Honors program in 2012. After a Fulbright year at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany, he completed a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton. He's now a data scientist for Aquicore, an IoT (Internet of Things) energy monitoring company, where he helps buildings cut their carbon emissions by optimizing their energy use. His work involves a fun blend of programming, statistics, and business logic to create statistical models to identify inefficiencies and ensure data quality, engineer data pipelines to translate ideas into products, and visualize data in dashboards to communicate its patterns. IB gave Matt a deep appreciation for the nuances and complexities of ecosystems, as well as the urgency through which we need to act on climate change. His senior thesis was pivotal in him becoming an independent thinker.

If you would like to talk with Matt about graduate school, data science, sustainability, programming, or statistics, send an email to alumnimentor@sib.illinois.edu. You can learn more about most of these topics at Matt's site https://mattsosna.com, including the posts Getting into grad school for bio, Writing the self contained universe, and Advice nine months out of the college bubble.