2017 Prizes 2017 Judging Panel: Tim Drye (DUG) Alistair Leak (UCL)

Call for Industry Supervisors

Guy Lansley University College London g.lansley@ucl.ac.uk @GuyLansley

Sponsors (2012-17)

Students (2012-17)

The programme offers students a unique opportunity to apply their skills to real-world problems and to gain valuable experience working with commercial datasets

Panel images from left to right: Christian Tonge (2017), Paula White (2017), Neelam Kundi (2017), Ulzhan Bissarinova (2017)

Incentives

Grouped words after implementing distributed representation of words, with the means from Gaussian Mixture Models (Eirini Milaiou, 2016)

• Projects can address important horizon-scanning questions

• Demonstrable collaboration with academia

• Exposure to new software, techniques and perspectives

• Possibility of working with safeguarded data

• Positive implications for postgraduate student recruitment

Outputs

Short examples of previous projects are available online www.cdrc.ac.uk/retail-masters/archive

Engagement

Step 1 Fill the project proposal form

and email it to g.lansley@ucl.ac.uk

Step 2 Select a student from a shortlist of applications forwarded by the

CDRC

Step 3 Hold occasional steering meetings with the selected student

between May and August

• Three-tier Data Access

• Secure Facilities

• Trusted Researchers

• Governance

• Safe results

www.cdrc.ac.uk/retail-masters

Poster vote