New Program Addresses Demand for Data Science Workforce in Energy Industry

Photo of wind turbines creating clean energy
As the energy sector evolves toward cleaner, more sustainable sources, new kinds of skills will be required of its workforce. The Data Science for Energy Transition program's summer camp will introduce approximately 40 graduate and undergraduate students to areas that will be keystones to building careers within the energy sector of the future.
Photo of nine faculty organizers of Data Science Summer Camp
Summer Camp faculty include (from left) Dvijesh Shastri, UH-Downtown; Jiajia Sun, UH; Yunsoo Choi, UH; Mikyoung Jun, UH; Pablo Pinto, UH; Melinda Holt, Sam Houston State University; Jonny Wu, UH; Yingcai Zheng, UH; and Lorenzo Colli, UH. Not pictured are Sunny Wong, UH, and UH-Victoria's Hardik Gohel and Yun Wan.
Photo of Professor Mikyoung Jun, the project's principal investigator
Mikyoung Jun, University of Houston ConocoPhillips professor of data science, is principal investigator for Data Science for Energy Transition program, a collaboration between UH and four other Texas universities. Applications for a nondegree summer camp are currently being accepted from students of any major. No prerequisites are required.
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