Recognizing the increasingly powerful role that data plays in society, Reza enrolled in the NYC Data Science Academy to be better equipped in solving tomorrowโs big questions. With a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from George Washington University, heโs always enjoyed the challenges that accompany solving difficult questions or understanding complex processes. For his capstone, Reza worked on a 5-person team building a Yelp Recommendation App. He served as his teamโs data engineer, building and connecting a Flask web-app to a variety of machine-learning models on Spark using Kafkaโs streaming platform.