Data Sparks Awards Dinner 2022

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We are delighted to announce the Data Spark Award Winners for 2022. Run by Imperial Business Analytics, this award night was created to recognise the hard work put into the Data Spark programme, both by our students and our sponsors.

Nominations were made by our sponsors and academic mentors

Adrien Walewski & James Zhou
Winners: Adrien Walewski & James Zhou

‘Outstanding individual contribution in analytics’

Nominations:

  • Anne Bode

For his work on ‘Predicting performance and income, project 2’ with a world-leading advisory firm in the entertainment industry

  • Yassine Marrakchi

For work on Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Global Relationships, project 1’ with Chatham House

  • Benjamin Schneider

For work on Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Global Relationships, project 1’ with Chatham House

  • Adrien Walewski

For work on ‘Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Global Relationships, project 2’ with Chatham House

  • James Zhou

For work on ‘Predicting performance and income, project 1’ with a world-leading advisory firm in the entertainment industry

Winners:

Adrien Walewski & James Zhou
 

‘Outstanding individual contribution in communication’

Nominations:

Ashley Cai

For work on Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Global Relationships, project 1’ with Chatham House

Benjamin Schneider

For work on Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Global Relationships, project 1’ with Chatham House

Daren Tan

For work on ‘Supporting the development of a Validate AI self-assessment program’ with Validate AI

David Wheatley

For work on ‘Predicting performance and income, project 1’ with a world-leading advisory firm in the entertainment industry

Chen Zhang

For work on ‘Supporting the development of a Validate AI self-assessment program’ with Validate AI

Winner:
David Wheatley

Outstanding individual contribution in client relationship

Nominations:

  • Anne Bode

For work on ‘Predicting performance and income, project 2’ with a world-leading advisory firm in the entertainment industry

  • Ashley Cai

For work on Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Global Relationships, project 1’ with Chatham House

  • Jubal Kuessner 

For work on ‘Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Global Relationships, project 1’ with Chatham House

  • David Wheatley

For work on ‘Predicting performance and income, project 1’

Winner:
Anne Bode

Outstanding individual contribution in project management
Nominations:

  • Zac Rabie

For work on ‘Predicting performance and income, project 1’ with a world-leading advisory firm in the entertainment industry

  • Benjamin Schneider

For work on ‘Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Global Relationships, project 1’ with Chatham House

  • Adrien Walewski

For work on Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Global Relationships, project 2’ with Chatham House

Winner:
Benjamin Schneider

The Mastery Award: for the team which showed great mastery in data science and business

Nominations:

‘Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Global Relationships, project 1' with Chatham House

Team:  Sherry Aggarwal, Ashley Cai, Jubal Kuessner, Yassine Marrakchi, Benjamin Schneider

 'Predicting performance and income, project 1’ with a world-leading advisory firm in the entertainment industry

Team: Chuks Chukwuedo, David Wheatley, Zac Rabie, Yunsi Zhang, James Zhou 

Winners:
'Predicting performance and income, project 1’

Team: Chuks Chukwuedo, David Wheatley, Zac Rabie, Yunsi Zhang, James Zhou 

The Breakthrough Award: for the team which found something that really makes a difference

Winners:

‘Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Global Relationships, project 2' with Chatham House

Team:  

Foyinsola Bolade, Artem Gryshchenko, Mohamed el Minawi, Ria Qi, Adrien Colonna Walewski

Winners: Jose Moreno, Simon Thomae
Winners: Jose Moreno, Simon Thomae

Star Mentor

Nominees:

  • Client mentor (anon), world-leading advisory firm in the entertainment industry

For work on Predicting performance and income’ with a world-leading advisory firm in the entertainment industry

  • Chatham House mentors

For work on ‘Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Global Relationships’ with Chatham House

  • Mark Kennedy, Imperial College Business School

For work on ‘Supporting the development of a Validate AI self-assessment program’ with Validate AI

  • Shakeel Khan, Validate AI

For work on ‘Supporting the development of a Validate AI self-assessment program’ with Validate AI

  • Jose Moreno, Imperial College Business School

For work on Predicting performance and income’ with a world-leading advisory firm in the entertainment industry

  • Simon Thomae, Imperial College Business School

For work on ‘Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Global Relationships’ with Chatham House

Winners:

Jose Moreno & Simon Thomae

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