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Coursera: Learner Story: Nick Kersting, lands a job at IBM with Machine Learning
Nick Kersting worked as an IT consultant for five years after receiving his PhD in Physics. Wanting to try something new, he started exploring options to build additional skills and came across Machine Learning on Coursera. After the course, he used his newly acquired techniques for topics such as clustering and neural networks, to build a personal website demonstrating his knowledge of the subject. This is what caught the attention of the tech giant, IBM. Based on his credentials, Kersting was invited to interview at IBM by presenting to a panel of 30 employees who were all part of their machine learning lab. As the interview started, he shocked everyone in the room. “Some of the questions seemed to be pulled straight out of Professor Ng’s Machine Learning lectures,” says Kersting. Thanks to Coursera, Kersting now has a new career direction as a Senior Software Engineer at IBM. Change your career »…