The SIAM Visiting Lecturer Program (VLP) provides the community with a roster of experienced and inspirational applied mathematicians and computational scientists in industry, government, and academia, who can speak on topics that are of interest to developing professional mathematicians.
Learn more about the following speakers from New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts and contact them if you are interested in them speaking at your institution.
Veronica Mejia Bustamante
Vice President, JP Morgan | New York City, New York, U.S.
Job Description: Quantitative Analysis
Other Positions: Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Education: B.S. Mathematics, B.S. Economics / M.S. Mathematics / Ph.D. Mathematics
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: STEM majors in industry / Undergraduate math majors and beyond
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: Transitioning from Grad School to Careers in Industry / Mathematics graduate students and beyond
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: Applications of data science in finance / Undergraduate math majors and beyond
Veena Mendiratta
Research Leader, Nokia Bell Labs | Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Job Description: Applied research on telecom data analytics, architecting and modeling next generation communication networks for high performance and reliability.
Other Positions: At Bell Labs since 1984 which has been a part of several companies over the years due to splits, mergers, acquisitions - AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, and currently Nokia.
Education: B.Tech in Engineering / Ph.D. in Operations Research / Senior Member IEEE, Member INFORMS, Life Member of SIAM, Adjunct Faculty Advisor for the M.S. in Data Analytics (MSiA) program at Northwestern
Other information: Invited judge at the COMAP sponsored Mathematical Competition in Modeling (MCM) for undergraduate students and (HiMCM) for high school students.
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: Anomaly Detection in Wireless Networks / Undergraduate math majors and beyond
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: What can we learn from software failure data? / General audience (calculus experience and experience with proofs not required!)
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: Reliability Models for Fault-Tolerant Systems / Undergraduate math majors and beyond
Elisa Rosales
Senior Data Analyst, UMass Memorial Health Care | Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Job Description: Deploy data analyses, reports and quality improvement projects on behalf of the Managed Care Network and the Accountable Care Organization.
Other Positions: Application Analyst at UMass Memorial Health Care
Education: B.S. Mathematics / M.S. Applied Statistics
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: Healthcare analytics and population health / General audience
Helen Moore
Director of Applied Mathematics, Applied BioMath | Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.
Job Description: Use ordinary differential equations to mechanistically model patients, disease states, and drug effects.
Other Positions: Associate Director at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Principal Scientist at AstraZeneca, Modeling and Simulation Scientist at Genentech
Education: B.S. in Mathematics / Ph.D. in Mathematics / Fellow of SIAM
Other information: Spent the first 11 years after Ph.D. working in academia, before taking a job in industry in 2006.
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: How to Use Mathematics to Predict Cancer Patient Responses to Immuno-therapy / Undergraduate math majors and beyond
Possible Lecture Topic and Audience: How to Mathematically Optimize Combination Drug Regimens / Undergraduate math majors and beyond
Learn more about hosting a speaker at your institution by visiting the Program Guidelines.