Math Careers in Industry Day 2021

The KU Math Department hosted its fifth annual Careers in Industry Day was held on November 20, 2021. Panelists included:

• Rachel Hart (American Century Investments, Shawnee, KS)
• Bradley Isom (T-Mobile, Overland Park, KS)
• Kevin Li (Federal Home Loan Bank, Topeka, KS)
• Catherine (Katy) Micek (3M, St. Paul, MN)
• Luis Serrano (Zapata Computing, Toronto, Canada)
• Andrew Steyer (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM)

• Panelist bios
• Andrew Steyer's presentation (PDF)
• Kevin Li's presentation (PDF)
• FHB job opportunties from Kevin Li (PDF)
• Links from Katy Micek's talk:
  • "Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity" (McKinsey, May 1, 2011)
  • "Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century" (Harvard Business Review, October 2012)
  • "Should you become a data scientist?" (KDnuggets, December 2018)
  • "What Data Scientists Really Do, According to 35 Data Scientists" (Harvard Business Review, August 2018)