Data Science & Analytics

The Power of AWS for Buffalo State College 

Tara Madhyastha, Dolica Gopisetty, and Shane Kalil

Thursday May 20th 6:00-7:00 PM

 TALKING POINTS

• What are the key tenants of the cloud? 
• Why Academic Institutions throughout the US and internationally are moving workloads to the cloud and AWS.  
• Real-world case studies across higher education where researchers, scientists, professors, and students have unlocked the power of AWS to solve various challenges. 

BIO:

Dr. Tara Madhyastha is a Principal Research Scientist at AWS and affiliate faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. Trained in high performance computing, she is an interdisciplinary scientist, with contributions in the fields of computer science, educational technology and psychology. For the last ten years she worked in neuroimaging, developing new methods to study changes to cognitive networks that occur with aging and neurodegenerative disease.

Dolica Gopisetty is an AWS Solutions Architect dedicated to supporting the SUNY System and their many missions.  Most recently working as a member of AWS’s Central SA Organization, Dolica was promoted to work directly with the SUNY system at the beginning of this year.  Dolica holds several AWS Certifications including her Solutions Architect Associate, as well as Developer Associate.   

Shane Kalil is an AWS Account Manager directly responsible for Amazon’s relationship with the SUNY System.  Holding many industry certifications, Shane has been in the technology consulting field for nearly 20 years helping clients address a variety of challenges through hardware, software, services, and now cloud!

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