Marie Rudasics is the last line of defense.
Six players advance across the pool with a single objective in mind: making sure that yellow hydrogrip ball finds its way into the net. Rudasics, goalkeeper for the Arizona State University women’s water polo team, is there to stop them. In that role, she has been ranked second for save percentage in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and has a career high of 12 saves in a single game. She remains in position, treading water, tracking the ball, staying sharp and waiting for the next shot.
But Rudasics is also an emerging data scientist who is just as busy outside the pool, studying and applying the same focus and determination to protecting our most precious digital assets: our financial information. Just as she guards the goal, she also helps guard our bank accounts.
Rudasics is working toward a master’s degree in data science from the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU. She juggles her efforts as an athlete with her studies and a position as a data governance officer for a leading payment processing company.
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