On November 19th 2020 was held a panel talk organized by INFORMS at Penn State titled : “INFORMS Presents: From PhD to Industry”.

During that Zoom session, Dr. Ning Liu, Dr. Xuan Zheng, and PhD candidate Adam Meyers gave their impressions on the process of transitioning from PhD to working full time in industry. They answered questions about their motivations, about useful skills, and briefly described the work they do and a typical day at work. They also provided valuable insights and advice that can help students successfully enter industry.

INFORMS at Penn State Student Chapter would like to thank the audience for their attendance and participation and the panelists for sharing their valuable experience to help our members prepare for entering the workforce in industry.

INFORMS at Penn State Student Chapter held a webinar ‘How To Find An Academic Job’ on July 22.

Our guest speaker, Afrooz Jalilzadeh, who graduated from the Department of Industrial Engineering this summer, will start her career at the University of Arizona this Fall at the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering as a tenure-track assistant professor.

Afrooz shared her experience in finding academic job from various perspectives following the time line of the application including preparing the application documents, early conference interview, campus interview.

INFORMS at Penn State Student Chapter would like to thank the audience for the attendance and the speaker Afrooz for sharing her valuable experience to help our members prepare their application for academic jobs.

Dear students and INFORMS members,
We hope you are healthy and safe during this difficult time with much uncertainty.
We can imagine that everyone of us is kind of isolated, as the spring semester comes to an end, INFORMS at Penn State intends to hold a virtual meeting for our students and members.

Potential topics are listed below, please let us know your interest by completing the survey before next Monday, April 20 at 11:00 pm : https://orgcentral.psu.edu/submitter/form/start/403470

For any question, please email Lan Jin at lxj84@psu.edu.

Potential topics:

1. Social activities and game night

• Picture of your life: Take a picture of something important from your private life and discuss your choices.
• Fun fact about the place you were born: Find a picture of your hometown you would like to share and find a fun fact about it.
• Deserted island: You’ve been stranded on a deserted island. Now choose three items from a handy list of survival tools.
• What would you like to do most when the epidemic ends?

2. How-to-find-an-academic-job panel

• Faculty members will be invited to share their experience in finding academic jobs.

3. Others ideas?
Looking forward to your preference and feedback!

MATLAB Onramp Training

You’re invited to a MATLAB Onramp Party – February 26th

Please join INFORMS and MathWorks for complimentary MATLAB training on February 26, 2020.

Faculty, researchers, and students are all welcome to attend.

To ensure that we have enough food and drink, please fill in the form:

https://orgcentral.psu.edu/submitter/form/start/389398

Details:

MATLAB Onramp Party 

Location: Leonhard Building 102

Date: Wednesday, Feb. 26th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm

To register your FREE MathWorks account with Penn State (Use your PSU email):

https://matlabacademy.mathworks.com/

Overview 

If you are new to MATLAB, or just want to want to brush up your MATLAB skills, join us for a MATLAB Onramp Party. We will go through the hands-on 2-hour online, interactive MATLAB Onramp training.

For those students with MATLAB experience, there is a Deep Learning Onramp tutorial also available.

Highlights

• MATLAB      in academia and industry: 15 min
• MATLAB      Onramp: 1hr. 30 min
  • Pizza & drinks will be provided.

Before the event: 

• Please create a free MathWorks.com      account, and associate yourself with the Penn State University license.
• Please bring a laptop/tablet with      charger
• Download and install MATLAB R2017b      (optional) https://www.mathworks.com/academia/tah-portal/pennsylvania-state-university-30662891.html

INFORMS at Penn State held an event to introduce the career in data science to INFORMS members and IE students on Dec. 3. It was a great success and INFORMS at Penn State appreciate its guest speaker’s presentation.

The guest speaker, Mihir Mehta, currently a Ph.D. student majoring in IE, has numerous professional experience in data science, who worked as a senior data scientist for 84.51 and Oriental Trading Company and also worked as a business analyst for Credit Suisse in India.

Mihir mainly introduced various types of data scientists in industry such as statistics focused, business analytics focused and process design focused. To illustrate the difference among these roles, Mihir used several real world examples to help the audience gain more insights.

Further, he addressed the new trend in the collaboration of all these types of roles in one team.

After the presentation, the audience have a lot of discussion with the speaker to get more knowledge about the career in data science.

INFORMS at Penn State looks forward to inviting Mihir Mehta to share more experience in the future!

Dear Students and INFORMS Penn State members,

Hope you have had a great holiday!

The INFORMS Penn State Student Chapter invites you to attend the Data Science Career session on

Tuesday, December 3, 2019, 6pm – 7pm, at 101 Leonhard Building.

We invite our guest speaker, Mihir Mehta, to share his numerous experience in industry as a Data Scientist.

Pizza and Drinks will be provided. To ensure that we have enough food and drink, please fill in the form:https://orgcentral.psu.edu/submitter/form/step/1?Guid=9d2c5eea-3d20-4e20-a9ab-d492014b8722.