{"id":829,"date":"2025-09-16T14:42:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/?page_id=829"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:50:20","slug":"past-lava-talks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/past-lava-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Past LAVA Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Speaker<\/td>Class Year<\/td>Affiliation (as of talk date)<\/td>Field\/Title<\/td><\/tr>
2010-2011<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Joe Fera<\/td>2005<\/td>Wesleyan University<\/td>Grad School – Mathematics<\/td><\/tr>
Scott Kominers<\/td>VC Friend<\/td>Harvard Business School<\/td>Grad School – Economics and Business<\/td><\/tr>
Lia Morelli<\/td>2005<\/td>Liberty Mutual<\/td>Actuarial Science<\/td><\/tr>
Kofi James<\/td>2008<\/td>NY Life Insurance<\/td>Actuarial Science<\/td><\/tr>
Sandy Eckel<\/td>2004<\/td>University of Southern California<\/td>Biostatistics<\/td><\/tr>
Lisa Gustavson<\/td>1993<\/td>DE Shaw<\/td>Financial Mathematics<\/td><\/tr>
Ted McDonald<\/td>1991<\/td>DE Shaw<\/td>Financial Mathematics<\/td><\/tr>
Meg Lippincott<\/td>2009<\/td>University of Chicago<\/td>Law School<\/td><\/tr>
Selina Urbina<\/td>1991<\/td> <\/td>Law<\/td><\/tr>
2011-2012<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Trachette Jackson<\/td>VC Friend<\/td>University of Michigan<\/td>Mathematical Modeling – Cancer Research<\/td><\/tr>
Susan Martonosi<\/td>VC Friend<\/td>Harvey Mudd<\/td>Operations Research<\/td><\/tr>
Michael Frank<\/td>VC Friend<\/td>Aquarius Capital<\/td>Actuarial Science<\/td><\/tr>
Jenn Ferrara<\/td>2004<\/td>high school in northern NJ<\/td>Secondary Math Education<\/td><\/tr>
Kathryn Swallow<\/td>2007<\/td>high school in the South Bronx<\/td>Secondary Math Education<\/td><\/tr>
Sarah Wilson<\/td>VC Friend<\/td>NSA<\/td>National Security<\/td><\/tr>
2012-2013<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Bren Cavallo<\/td>2011<\/td>CUNY Graduate Center<\/td>Grad School – Mathematics<\/td><\/tr>
Tim Susse<\/td>2008<\/td>CUNY Graduate Center<\/td>Grad School – Mathematics<\/td><\/tr>
Tian An Wong<\/td>2011<\/td>CUNY Graduate Center<\/td>Grad School – Mathematics<\/td><\/tr>
Mike Abrahams<\/td>2010<\/td>MIT<\/td>Grad School – Finance and Economics<\/td><\/tr>
Kofi James<\/td>2008<\/td>NY Life Insurance<\/td>Actuarial Science – Life Insurance<\/td><\/tr>
Siu Kay Lee<\/td>2012<\/td>NY Life Insurance<\/td>Actuarial Science – Life Insurance<\/td><\/tr>
Lauren Howard<\/td>2012<\/td>Duke University<\/td>Grad school – Biostatistics<\/td><\/tr>
2013-2014<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Helen Moore<\/td>VC Friend<\/td>Pharsight, A Certera Company<\/td>Drug Development<\/td><\/tr>
Barbara Ely<\/td>2011<\/td>Math Muesum of America<\/td>Math Outreach<\/td><\/tr>
2014-2015<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Philani Mpofu<\/td>2012<\/td>Indiana University<\/td>Grad school – Biostatistics<\/td><\/tr>
Carol Gutowski<\/td>1985<\/td>Innovest Systems<\/td>Software Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
Kofi James<\/td>2008<\/td>NY Life Insurance<\/td>Actuarial Science – Life Insurance<\/td><\/tr>
Roiana Reid<\/td>2012<\/td>Nomura Securities<\/td>Economics Research<\/td><\/tr>
Jehan Shams<\/td>2013<\/td>YouGov<\/td>Data Science – Marketing Research<\/td><\/tr>
2015-2016<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Nishan Subedi<\/td>2012<\/td>Etsy<\/td>Software Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
Kofi James<\/td>2008<\/td>NY Life Insurance<\/td>Actuarial Science – Life Insurance<\/td><\/tr>
Siu Kay Lee<\/td>2012<\/td>NY Life Insurance<\/td>Actuarial Science – Life Insurance<\/td><\/tr>
Charlotte Yang<\/td>2014<\/td>Cornerstone Research<\/td>Economic and Financial Consulting<\/td><\/tr>
2016-2017<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Noelle Sawyer<\/td>2014<\/td>Wesleyan University<\/td>Grad School – Mathematics<\/td><\/tr>
Kofi James<\/td>2008<\/td>NY Life Insurance<\/td>Actuarial Science – Life Insurance<\/td><\/tr>
Dave Rosenkranz<\/td>2014<\/td>NERA (formerly), Columbia University (current)<\/td>Grad School – Economics, and Economic Consulting<\/td><\/tr>
Sam Stites<\/td>2017<\/td> <\/td>Statistics\/Machine Learning and Software Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
Daniel (Sherwood) August<\/td>2013<\/td>Essex Street Academy<\/td>Secondary Math Education, Math for America<\/td><\/tr>
Jackie Parziale<\/td>2014<\/td>Department of Defense<\/td>National Security<\/td><\/tr>
2017-2018<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Katherine Zhou<\/td>2015<\/td>PNC Financial Services<\/td>Model Analyst<\/td><\/tr>
Joe Andrade<\/td>2014<\/td>Stony Brook University<\/td>Grad School – Physics<\/td><\/tr>
Hadassah Mativetksy<\/td>VC Friend<\/td>Universal Instruments Corporation<\/td>Sofware Quality Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
Marissa Hashizume<\/td>2015<\/td>Abt Associates<\/td>Policy Research<\/td><\/tr>
Calandra Tate Moore<\/td>VC Friend<\/td>Federal Government<\/td>Data Science<\/td><\/tr>
2018-2019<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Robert Ronan<\/td>2015<\/td>CUNY Graduate Center<\/td>Grad School – Mathematics<\/td><\/tr>
Noelle Sawyer<\/td>2014<\/td>Wesleyan<\/td>Grad School – Mathematics<\/td><\/tr>
Alex Stass<\/td>2015<\/td>CUNY Graduate Center<\/td>Grad School – Mathematics<\/td><\/tr>
John Whelan<\/td>2017<\/td>Cornell<\/td>Grad School – Mathematics<\/td><\/tr>
Jonathan Hershaff<\/td>2003<\/td>SEC<\/td>Financial Economics<\/td><\/tr>
Barbara Neumann<\/td>1974<\/td>IBM<\/td>Software Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
Lauren Shiman<\/td>2010<\/td>NYC Dept of Health<\/td>Public Health<\/td><\/tr>
Jeremy Shiman<\/td>2010<\/td>WRNS Studio<\/td>Architecture<\/td><\/tr>
James Ricci<\/td>2006<\/td>US Government<\/td>Congressional Fellow<\/td><\/tr>
2020-2021<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Lauren Howard<\/td>2012<\/td>Duke University<\/td>Biostatistics<\/td><\/tr>
Milind Sharma<\/td>1994<\/td>QuantZ Capital<\/td>Quant Finance<\/td><\/tr>
Michael Thottam<\/td>2012<\/td>Hypothesis Group<\/td>Statistics in Market Research<\/td><\/tr>
Alex Trunnell<\/td>2017<\/td>Meridian Academy<\/td>Mathematics Education and Teaching<\/td><\/tr>
Emma LaPlace<\/td>2020<\/td>Columbia University, graduate student<\/td>Mathematics Education and Teaching<\/td><\/tr>
Lisa Esposito<\/td>2019<\/td>Allied World Reinsurance<\/td>Actuarial Science<\/td><\/tr>
Nishan Subedi<\/td>2012<\/td>Overstock<\/td>Algorithms to power business<\/td><\/tr>
Anthony Graves-McCleary<\/td>2015<\/td>Cornell University<\/td>Grad School – Mathematics<\/td><\/tr>
Baian Lu<\/td>2018<\/td>The Ohio State University<\/td>Grad School – Mathematics<\/td><\/tr>
Dean Spyropoulos<\/td>2019<\/td>Michigan State University<\/td>Grad School – Mathematics<\/td><\/tr>
2022-2023<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Natalie Roberts<\/td>2019<\/td>Fidelity and Guaranty Life<\/td>Actuarial Science<\/td><\/tr>
Peter Lee<\/td>2014<\/td>FTX (cryptocurrency exchange)<\/td>Data Science<\/td><\/tr>
2023-2024<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Paige Ioppolo<\/td>2014<\/td>Trevor Day School<\/td>Mathematics Education<\/td><\/tr>
Philani Mpofu<\/td>2012<\/td>Flatiron Health<\/td>Biostatistics & Epidemiology (Grad School and Industry)<\/td><\/tr>
Carl Gutowski<\/td>1985<\/td>SS&C | Innovest Systems<\/td>Software Development<\/td><\/tr>
Elijah Appelson<\/td>2023<\/td>ACLU Louisiana<\/td>Data Activism<\/td><\/tr>
Kai Matheson<\/td>2019<\/td>Accenture<\/td>Data Science for Social Good (academic and federal consulting)<\/td><\/tr>
2024-2025<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Lisa (Esposito) Cannizzaro<\/td>2016<\/td>Allied World Reinsurance<\/td>Actuarial Science<\/td><\/tr>
Tony Caletti<\/td>2018<\/td>Door Dash<\/td>Data Science<\/td><\/tr>
Robert Ronan<\/td>2015<\/td>NYU Langone Health Center<\/td>Machine Learning<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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