Ai+ Training

Hannah Arnson serves as Director of Data Science with Pandata – a Cleveland-based AI consulting firm. There, she leverages her 10+ years of experience to lead AI solution design and development, with a focus on ethical and approachable AI. Hannah began her career as a neuroscientist, receiving a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis, then continuing on to do postdoctoral research. During this time, she developed statistical and mathematical models to better understand topics ranging from the sense of smell to navigation in pigeons. As a data scientist, Hannah's passions lie in finding patterns within complex datasets and educating to make these technical concepts accessible to all.

Danielle Aring is an IT Security Data Engineer IV with the Transmission Security Operations Center (TSOC) at FirstEnergy. In her role, she is responsible for the design, development, implementation and maintenance of IT security equipment and software. Danielle holds a master’s in Computer Information Science from Cleveland State University. With an extensive background in software engineering and expertise in machine learning, Danielle is guiding the transition of the TSOC away from reactionary, rules-based threat detection to preventative, predictive, threat-hunting approaches. She built her organizations’ security data lake in Hadoop from the ground up. Developed several large-scale data pipelines for near real-time security log ingest along with alerting, monitoring and metrics. Danielle is passionate about cybersecurity educational awareness and innovative applications of AI/ML to the changing threat landscape.