Past Speakers

Spring 2025

  • 2/19 Mitchell Scott, a former Tufts masters student and current Ph.D. student at Emory University.
  • 3/12 Dr Casey Cavanaugh, Tufts math Allum
  • 4/2 Dr. Christian Kuemmerle, a professor at UNC Charlotte

Fall 2024

  • 10/9 Emilie Purvine, Ph.D., Chief Data Scientist and Mathematician,Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • 10/22 David Cohen, Tufts Phd student
  • 11/6 Dr. Kathryn Maupin from Sandia National Lab.

    Spring 2024

    • Jan. 31: Berton Earnshaw – Scientific Director @ Valence
    • Feb. 14: Dave Darmon – Director of Data Science @ Moody’s 
    • Feb. 28: Carolyn Cho – Executive Director @ Eikon TherapeuticsMar. 1
    • 3: Laura Petto – Technical Staff @ MIT Lincoln Labs**Mar. 
    • 27: Alex Coyoli – Senior Software Engineer @ PTC**
    • April 10: Mathew Hancock – Partner @ Veryst Engineering
    • April 24: Mark Squillante – Research Staff Member @ IBM**

    Fall 2023

    • 9/13 Dr. Melody Takeuchi, Internal Consultant at Ab Initio Software. (Tufts math PhD).
    • 9/27 – Sam Petti – Assistant Professor at Tufts
    • Oct. 11 – Edgar Duenez-Guzman – Senior Research Engineer at DeepMind
    • Oct. 26 – Sven Cattell – President and Founder of AI Village
    • Nov. 8 – Chris Bemis – Cofounder and Managing Partner at X Cubed Captial Management
    • Dec. 6 – Mike Slawinski – Senior Data Scientist at CrowdStrike</p>

    Spring 2022

    • Sam Polk “MIT Lincoln Lab: History, Present, and Internships” 1/24
    • Dr. Ana Budisa “Computational aspects of modeling brain biomechanics” 2/16
    • Benjamin Ellis “Numerical Considerations In a Computational Geometry Engine” 3/9
    • Dr. David Emerson “A Career Path in Machine Learning with a Graduate Degree in Mathematics” 4/27

    Fall 2021

    • Matt Friedrichsen “Upgrading TLS for a Post-Quantum World” 9/22
    • Dr. Peter Ohm from Sandia National Lab “HPC, scientific computing, and multigrid” 10/13
    • Sheng Xu “Machine Learning Against Harmful Ads.” 11/3
    • Marshall Mueller “Structured Autoencoders” 12/1

    Fall 2020

    • Casey Cavanaugh – MathWorks
    • Sheng Xu – Amazon
    • Matt Friedrichsen – Gradient Technologies

    Spring 2020

    • Ben Galuardi – NOAA
    • Dan Zwillinger – BAE Systems
    • Olga Podgornova – Schlumberger-Doll Research Center

    Fall 2019

    • Dan Keesing – Analogic
    • Alex Coyoli – Tufts Math/Dana Farber Cancer Institute
    • Chris Degni – Akamai
    • Josh Enxing – Tufts Math
    • Haitham Elmarakeby – Broad Institute

    Spring 2019

    • Bruce Bogohsian – Tufts Math
    • Misha Kilmer – Tufts Math
    • David Liu – Broad Institute
    • Lenore Cowen – Tufts Computer Science
    • Joanne Lin – Tufts Math
    • Dan Linden – NOAA

    Fall 2018

    • Elizabeth Newman – Tufts Math
    • Matthew Friedrichsen – Tufts Math
    • Wieste Boon – University of Stuttgart Math
    • James Murphy – Tufts Math
    • Brian Tracey – Tufts Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Spring 2018

    • Richard Newman – FactSet
    • Ian Nelson – UMass Lowell Computer Science
    • Meghan O’Connell – MathWorks (Tufts Math Alum)
    • John Urschel – MIT Math
    • Kendra Russell – U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

    Fall 2017

    • Said Bleik – Microsoft
    • Phil Lerner – Optum
    • Marisa Gioioso – CiBO Technologies (Tufts Math Alum)
    • Amelio Vazquez-Reina – SessionM (Tufts Comp Sci Alum)
    • Shawn Stapleton – Optum