# What is Data Science Panel Questions **Maliaca Oxnam**, Deputy Director of the UArizona Data Science Institute **Kwang-Sung Jun**, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UArizona **Vignesh Subbian**, Assistant Professor of Systems & Industrial Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, UArizona **Alise Ponsero**, Postdoc and Data Science Fellow, UArizona, Now at University of Helsinki (all panelists) 1. What is data science to you? 2. Could you tell us about how you arrived to working in Data Science? 3. For those with no experience, how would you recommend they get started? and/or What is something you would have done differently if you were starting from scratch now? 4. Where does data science cross into 'data engineering'? 5. What interesting new advances in data science are you keeping an eye on?