NITECH: NATO Innovation and Technology – Issue 5, June 2021

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NITECH ››› DEVELOPING CAREERS IN DATA SCIENCE

MEET GIAVID VALIYEV Data Scientist at the NCI Agency Giavid Valiyev received the Young Scientist of the Year award from the NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO)’s Information Systems Technology Panel for his ‘’valuable contribution to NATO’s digital endeavour’’ Valiyev is from Italy. He earned a degree in data science from Milan-Bicocca University, and joined the university’s research centre after graduation. He first joined the NCI Agency Data Science team in 2017 as an intern. He is now a full-time staff member and lives in The Hague, Netherlands.

Q What do you do for the Agency? I analyse data to highlight patterns and insights for decision-makers. My objective is to help them make better, faster data-driven decisions. The Data Science team receives a huge quantity of data, generated by NATO, and it’s our job to analyse relevant data from different military domains, such as space, defence, cyber and more. We apply algorithms and models to this data to identify patterns/trends and create solutions for the specific problems that our stakeholders are working on. We do this on a daily basis for a number of teams – Allied Command Transformation (ACT), Allied Command Operations (ACO), NATO Headquarters – to name only a few.

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The data we analyse comes in two forms: structured and unstructured. Structured data could be numerical

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tables and spreadsheets, whereas unstructured data is more text-based or images and data gathered from sensors, such as drone sensors for example. The data that we use to analyse and problem-solve come from many sources across NATO – military exercises, operations and documents. I began my journey at the NCI Agency as an intern four years ago, in 2017, when the Data Science team was just forming. I was lucky enough to be part of the development of the team and see it grow. After 2017, I worked as a contractor in the Data Science team for a few years. In March 2020, I became a NATO international civilian. The Young Scientist Award that I am receiving is in recognition of the work I have done and been a part of over the past three years in the Data Science team.

Q Why is your work important for NATO? NATO benefits from our work because we help guide and inform the strategic direction of the Alliance. We exploit and analyse data for strategic purposes and military benefit, to help decision-makers make better choices that are backed up by data. Data science in general can help NATO learn an awful lot.

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Data science glossary

1min
pages 114-116

5 things Big Data can help with

5min
pages 111-113

What do data scientists want from work?

4min
pages 108-110

Women in AI

5min
pages 105-107

Meet Giavid Valiyev, data scientist at the NCI Agency

5min
pages 102-104

protect against cyber intrusions

4min
pages 100-101

5G technologies for military applications

12min
pages 94-99

Ethical deployment of AI

6min
pages 89-93

Steadfast Defender

4min
pages 86-88

NATO's Digital Workplace

4min
pages 74-77

The Data Challenge

9min
pages 70-73

Using oceanographic datasets to improve decision-making

4min
pages 68-69

Developing autonomous anti-submarine warfare systems

8min
pages 64-67

AI in ASW – anti-submarine warfare

8min
pages 60-63

of the NCI Agency and NATO

11min
pages 55-59

surveillance and reconnaissance data

4min
pages 52-54

Improving NATO policies with AI

12min
pages 38-41

Enhancing data processing for NATO air and space power

7min
pages 42-45

View from the Nations – France

9min
pages 46-51

The promise and challenge of data analytics for the Alliance

10min
pages 26-31

Deployable CIS saves lives

12min
pages 32-37

Data, data, data

7min
pages 22-25

Admiral Joachim Rühle

5min
pages 16-21

Kevin J. Scheid

3min
pages 12-15
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