Ibrahim Mukherjee

Ibrahim Mukherjee is an LSE Graduate in BSc Management (Hons) and a data scientist. After graduating from the LSE in 2008, Ibrahim joined the oil and gas industry as a financial analyst working in Trinidad, Singapore, UK (Aberdeen, Reading, London), Norway, Malaysia, Tunisia, and Romania. All this while a latent interest in behavioural economics and neuroscience reading the works of Daniel Kahneman (Thinking Fast and Slow) and Dan Ariely (Predictably irrational) has led to a second career in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Ibrahim is interested in how the brain abstracts meaning from events and how human cognition differentiates from general machine learning and pattern recognition. Apart from work, Ibrahim likes reading on the philosophy of science, religious psychology, cognitive neuroscience, human responses to stress, Bayesian methods, and writing software.