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Author: Maria Teleńczuk
Maria Teleńczuk, is a machine learning engineer with more than a decade of experience in programming and computational modeling. She is also a researcher with a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience. She has always been fascinated with biological and digital computation and over the years has worked in many research teams from both disciplines, discovering how the brain and computers can learn to model the world. She is an organizer of Pyladies Paris group and an open source contributor.
Paris-Saclay University uses AWS to advance data science through collaborative challenges
This is a guest post by Maria Teleńczuk, research engineer at the Paris-Saclay Center for Data Science (CDS), and Alexandre Gramfort, senior research scientist at INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology. Maria and Alexandre explain how they adapted their open source data challenge platform RAMP to train the models submitted by student challenge participants using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot instances, and how they leveraged AWS to support three student challenges.