Published: Feb. 27, 2017

By Elizabeth Lock for University of Colorado Boulder, posted February 24, 2017 

Derek Driggs

Derek Driggs will graduate from CU Boulder in May with multiple awards, achievements, and concurrent bachelor's and master's degrees.

You might call someone like Derek Driggs a big-data whisperer, looking through enormous sets of computational information to find what's corrupt or missing.

Driggs studies applied mathematics and has become the third CU Boulder student ever to receive the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, established in 2000, for doctoral studies at Cambridge University in England. The highly competitive award is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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