About us

A journey to build a data science community in the UK

Management team

In 2015, we started our journey with three founding members Karen Jung, Louisa O’Brien and Ning Lu.

In 2016, we had many contributors such as Ida H Floer Sandes, Yu-chen Lin, Danish Zahid, Ryan Urquhart, Erin Knochenhauer and Lisa Johnson-Davies.

In 2017, we continued our journey with a new management team including Lisa Johnson-Davies, Matthias de Ruyver, Jiann Terng Ma and Ning Lu.

In 2018, we continued our journey with a new management team including Lisa Johnson-Davies, Amanda Otley, Sarah Gadd, Verity Thether, Chahanna Subbaiah and Ning Lu.

In 2019, we continued our journey with Amanda Otley, Sarah Gadd, Verity Thether, Annabel Whipp, Francesca Pontin, Vicki Jenneson and Ryan Urquhart.

In 2020, we upgraded our mission with our co-founder Ning Lu. In 2021, we launched our Data Hero Scheme to improve data science training in Leeds. Ning Lu is currently leading the programme.

Battle team

In 2016, we started our battle team “Team Leeds” with Ning Lu, Lukas Čironis, Zeyu He, Erin Knochenhauer, Karen Husel, Bingqin Lin, Jeff Lai, Vincent Chen and Ruzive Mazhandu.

In 2017, we refreshed “Team Leeds” with Amanda Otley, Ausrine Rimeikyte, Ben Sultanovic, Sakies Sakkas, Ting Wang and Laura Garcia.

In 2018, we upgraded “Team Leeds” with Grace Eardley, Lu Liu, Leon Lok.

Achievements:

• Champion, Hiscox Data Science Challenge, 2017.
• Finalist, Hiscox Data Science Challenge, 2018.
• Finalist, Npower Forecasting Challenge, 2018.
• Champion, a Team Leeds member won the trivago Data Science Challenge in 2018.
• Finalists, two Team Leeds members reached top 3 in trivago Data Challenge in 2018.
• Tableau ambassador, a Team Leeds member became the Tableau ambassador in 2019-2020.
• Received corporate sponsorships from Hiscox, KPMG and BlackRock.

Former members working places:

Amazon, eBay, BlackRock, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Nielsen, Mintel, London Stock Exchange Group, Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Weber Shandwick.