Applied Mathematics in Industry Seminar
The Applied Mathematics in Industry Seminar (AMIS) Series focuses on applied mathematics and career development, offering students opportunities to explore diverse career paths available with an applied mathematics background. Each seminar features a 40–50-minute presentation followed by a 10–15-minute Q&A and discussion session. Speakers come from various industry sectors. The primary audience includes KSU mathematics faculty and students majoring in mathematics.
Date: 10/27/2025
Speaker: Jamal Nahofti, PhD, Operations Research Consultant, American Airlines
Title: Operations Research and Advanced Analytics at American Airlines
Date: 10/06/2025
Dr. Nan Lu, Director of Land Based Game Design, Gimmie Games, Aristocrat
Title: Introduction to Slot Game Design
Date: 09/03/2025
Speaker: Mackenzie Carr, Senior Actuarial Analyst, Aetna
Title: Career in Actuarial Science
Date: 04/16/2025
Speaker: Dr. Swarup Chandra
Title: Leveraging Large Language Models in B2B Marketing
Date: 3/26/2025
Speaker: Dr. Xingwang Chen, Data Science Manager at Navy Federal Credit Union
Title: Data Driven Underwriting Decisioning
Date: 10/9/2024
Speaker: Dr. Xinxin Zhu, Staff Data Scientist @ Warner Bros. Discovery
Title: Closed Captioning with GenAI/LLMs
Date: 9/6/2024
Speaker: Jake Jian, Director Data Science at 2U
Title: From Novice to Leader: Navigating Your Career in Data Science
Date: 2/28/2024
Speaker: Dr. Xingwang Chen, Manager at Navy Federal Credit Union
Title: Unlocking Opportunities: Navigating the Job Market as a Math Major
Date: 11/8/2023
Speaker: Dr. Lili Zhang, Research Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Title: Marketing Analytics Applications using Imbalanced Learning and Knowledge Graph
Date: 11/01/2023
Speaker: Tania Bedrax-Weiss, Senior Director, Research Engineering, Google LLC
Title: Applied Math in Industry Talk
Date: 10/4/2023
Speaker: Tianyu Li, Manager at KeyBank
Title: Applied Statistics in the Banking Industry
