Past Speakers

Spring 2024

Jan. 31: Berton Earnshaw – Scientific Director @ Valence

Feb. 14: Dave Darmon – Director of Data Science @ Moody’s

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