Meet Your Instructor

DAC

Dr. Amara Chen

Lead Instructor & Curriculum Director

  • •Ph.D. in Statistics, Stanford University
  • •10+ years in applied machine learning (ex-Google, ex-Airbnb)
  • •Published researcher, NeurIPS & KDD

Amara has spent the last decade building and shipping machine learning systems used by millions of people, and mentoring dozens of data scientists into their first roles. She designed this course around the same project-based approach she used to train internal teams at Google and Airbnb — less theory-for-theory's-sake, more "build it, break it, fix it."

Teaching Philosophy

Learn by shipping

Every concept is anchored to a project you can put in a portfolio, not a slide deck you'll forget.

Meet you where you are

Cohorts are small and mentor feedback is 1:1, so pacing adapts to the learner, not the other way around.

Teach what's actually used

The curriculum is updated each cohort based on what's actually being asked in industry interviews and on the job.