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Siddhartha Datta

Election Year: 2020

Election Constituency: Hong Kong

Scholar Status: Scholar in Residence

Rhodes Identifier: Hong Kong & New 2020

Siddhartha Datta

Biography

Siddhartha Datta, a Bangladeshi-born Hong Konger, went through the local schooling system all the way to his undergraduate in Global Business at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Through a rapid series of tumultuous life experiences jumping from failed startups to investment banks to research labs, he was fortunate to have forged a path in computer science. With a passion for building software systems that directly augment human ability, he will be continuing his studies of computer science at Oxford. With the combined development of machine learning architectures and optimal human-computer interaction, Siddhartha will create tangible products and systems that may change the way we perceive the world.