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My name is drt.

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I studied diagnostics, data and digital health,

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and I graduated in 2024.

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I work at Zopa Bank in London Bridge

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and my role is a data scientist.

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My role involves making models related to credit risk

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or fraud modeling, things like that.

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And it usually involves making models from beginning,

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so from conception all the way up to monitoring.

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There's lots of other things involved as well, like coding,

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uh, working in a team, managing different people.

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And so I get to experience a lot of different things.

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I decided to study this course

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because I wanted to do something related to maths

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and computer science, like my undergraduate degree,

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but I wanted to do it in a field that really mattered to me

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and something that could make a difference in the world.

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I was able to learn a lot about the NHS

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and do something that I thought was really important.

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There were lots of things that I learned from my course

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that I apply now, especially modeling.

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So before my course,

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I hadn't really experienced any modeling before.

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I did different things like modeling and Python

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and matlab, um, using feature engineering,

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model selection, model design, all of these different things

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to create something that would be able to predict

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what I wanted to predict.

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And that is something that I use every day. Now.

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Right now I'm in the process of designing a model,

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and the reason I know how to do

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that is because of my course.

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One of the modules that I did was operational management,

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which involves studying the NHS workflow

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for a few different hospitals,

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for a few different processes.

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And that really helped us identify all

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of the different challenges that healthcare is facing today.

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That includes things from budgeting

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to organizing the entire workflow, deciding who does what

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and what is needed at any given moment.

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And I just think that that really helped me want

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to improve the NHS in the future.

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I had a lot of career support when I was at work.

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I went to all of the career fairs

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that I could within the last year.

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Um, I had CV support with,

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I think it's called My Advantage, Warwick.

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I also went to a lot of conferences

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and that helped me get a bit more exposure to the field,

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to the different kinds of things

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that we could do in data science.

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So it was very inspiring and very useful for me.

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Before starting at Warwick, I

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was a little bit all over the place.

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I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life.

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I didn't know what I was good at.

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And when I studied maths and computer science and health

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and all of these different things at work, I realized

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that it's okay to have a passion

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for so many different things.

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And it is actually really good for finding things

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that combine different disciplines, bring them together

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and actually create something new.

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If I could give a prospective student for my course advice,

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it would definitely be

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to not worry if you don't know what to do yet.

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When I started this course, I did not know what I wanted

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to do, and I didn't know I wanted to be a data scientist,

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and I know for a fact that my other course mates have gone

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on to do so many different things like clinical sciences,

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life sciences, data science, computer science.

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So many different things are available to you

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and you can access the things that you need to access

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to get where you want to be.

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And you have plenty of time to decide.