INFORMS Student Chapter at Texas A&M

11/08/2019

INFORMS student chapter is organizing a coffee and chat with Professor Shmuel S. Oren Today, November 8th @ 11:00-11:30 am in ETB 1005

It is a great opportunity to get introduced to a professor like him and chat with him in a more informal way Dr. Shmuel S. Oren is Professor of the Graduate School and the Earl J. Isaac Chair Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley. He has also been a member of the California ISO Market Surveillance Committee and a consultant to numerous private and public entities in the US and abroad. His research has focused on nonlinear optimization, mechanism design, energy systems and on the design and analysis of electricity markets.

Please join our coffee and chat session to take advantage of this networking opportunity!

Coffee and light refreshments will be provided.

10/22/2019

Are you interested in working in industry? Do you want to know how it is to work in a professional industrial environment? What about the challenges to enhance your career?

Join us on INFORMS Industry Events on Friday, October 25, and Learn from the Experiences of our Alumni!

Come and attend the following events and learn from our INFORMS' alumni! Our participants from Oracle, Velo3D, Elevate and Bray International will get your questions answered! Food and drinks will be served!

Date: Friday, October 25, 2019
Location: ETB 1005

Event 1 - Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Start-up Event: Learn how it is to work in a start-up environment by ISEN and INFORMS alumni Dr. Gustavo Tapia, who is currently a Data Scientist at Velo3D. Get introduced to Velo3D and find out about the benefits of working in a start-up technology company.

Event 2 - Time: 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Industrial Panel: Our experienced professionals will provide information about their work experiences and will answer your career development questions. Prepare your questions to ask and network with our alumni!

Follow this link for Event 1 Registration(Start-up Panel)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_PG2MQHDuU_puY57XjcMNVhT_ntiiH2lyejVOgqmyUJeirg/viewform

Follow this link for Event 2 Registration(Industry Panel)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fjoGh15G0wsH_LnO7_dPjnnmglM35WQQ0i7EvGrCS28/viewform

Event Timing: October 25th, 2019; 12:00 - 1:00PM Event Address: 101 Bizzell Street College Station, ETB 1005, TX 77843 Contact us at (979) 739-2685 or [email protected]

09/26/2019

INFORMS student chapter is organizing a coffee and chat with Professor Ming Yuan.

Date & Time : Monday, September 30th @ 4:30-5:00 PM
Location: ETB 4055

It is a great opportunity to get introduced to a professor like him and chat with him in a more informal way.

Ming Yuan is the Professor of Statistics in Columbia University. He got his Ph.D. in Statistics from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004.
His research fields include Tensor, Computational Microscopy, High Dimensional Nonparametric Regression, High Dimensional (Inverse) Covariance Estimation, Sparse Signal Detection, Dimension Reduction and Index Models, Functional Data Analysis.

09/13/2019

Howdy!

Join us in a two-day workshop, Sept. 20 and 21, with James L. Harroun, SAS Principal Analytical Consultant, for a hands-on introduction to SAS programming, SAS Enterprise Miner, integration of SAS into Python and R, SAS Viya and Viya for learners.

The workshop will include the use of the different SAS platforms for data mining, visual data mining and machine learning. The number of participants is limited, so hurry up and register for this great opportunity at the following link!

https://tinyurl.com/yykc9g65.

Location: ETB room 3027.
Time: Friday 9/20 and Saturday 9/21, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm (with an hour lunch break)

As usual pizza and drinks will be provided!

Texas A&M University SAS Workshops

04/30/2019

Thank you so much to all the faculties and students who attended the INFORMS Faculty and Student Luncheon today. We hope you all enjoyed the food and had fun with the trivia quiz :)

It was a great opportunity to interact with faculties in a more informal way!

04/23/2019

Let's celebrate the end of this semester by enjoying a meal together and playing some games! Join us in this last event of the semester at INFORMS Faculty & Student Luncheon on Tuesday, April 30th, 2019 from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm in ETB 4002 to have a meal with the Professors and Fellow Graduate Students.

Enjoy the free lunch and fun games while getting to know your professors and fellow students! This is a great opportunity to learn about the research in other groups, find possible peers/professors to work with and many more. Seats are limited, please RSVP by 5:00 pm April 26th.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccLk5MTiyNzLdC4VuFN8O7slMCHdepaQ94BKd-wA5XLYTl3w/viewform

04/23/2019

Join us on Friday, April 26 and Learn how to Get an Industrial Interview and Launch Your Career!

Want to know how to network, get interviews, and ace these interviews? Want to know how to launch your career and enhance it? Want to know what skills are being sought after in the industrial job market (with a focus on analytics and data science)? How about soft skills?

Come attend this interactive workshop delivered by Dr. Aly Megahed from IBM Research and get your questions answered!

Dr. Aly Megahed is a research staff member at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. In his current job, he develops and advances research in analytics, statistics, machine learning, and operations research to address different service science, cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain technology problems. Dr. Megahed got his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech with a focus on the development of operations research and analytics tools for solving problems in supply chains and logistics systems.


Scan the QR code in the poster to register for the event.
Location: ETB 2005
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Contact: Iosif Pappas ([email protected])

Coffee & Chat to further discuss and interact with Dr. Megahed will follow from 1:45 - 2:30 pm!

04/19/2019

Howdy!

If you are graduating or moving, INFORMS Student Chapter at Texas A&M is going to help you free some of your suitcase room. INFORMS is hosting a donation drive for TWIN CITY MISSION from 23rd - 30th April 2019. The donation box is located on the 4th Floor in room 4062 in the ETB building.

Twin City Mission is a non-profit organization to help all individuals and families have an opportunity for hope, acceptance, and stability in a safe and caring environment. INFORMS is calling to donate your gently used or new clothes or shoes to help Twin City Mission to achieve their vision. If you are also interested in helping Twin City Mission with the other needs, please check the link below and you can get contact with them.

The following is a list of some of the items that can be donated to the Mission:

Men's Clothing (all sizes): underwear/undershirts, shirts, jackets, pants, suits, shoes, socks

Women's Clothing (all sizes): underwear/undergarments, slacks, sweaters, blouses, jackets, dresses, shoes, maternity wear

Children/Infants: underwear, shoes, pants, shirts, sleepers, jackets

Linens: bath towels, face cloths, twin size flat sheets, twin blankets (washable), pillowcases

Donate your unused clothes and make a difference! Thank you for your willingness to be a part of a great cause.

04/16/2019

Join us on Saturdays April 20 and 27 and get hands-on training on the SAS data analytics software.

Each Saturday we will have a 4-hour hands-on workshop by Prof. Faron Kincheloe, during which we will learn how to write SAS programs to access, explore, prepare, and analyze data, which is the entry point to learning SAS programming for data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

In this workshop, we learn to
Use SAS Studio to write and submit SAS programs.
Access SAS, Microsoft Excel, and text data.
Explore and validate data.
Prepare data by subsetting rows and computing new columns.
Analyze and report data.
Export data and results to Excel, PDF, and other formats.

No prior experience in using the SAS software is required.

Please scan the QR code in the poster to register for the event.

Location: ETB 1027
Time: 11:00 am - 3:30 pm (2:00 - 2:30 Lunch break)
Contact: David Shoukr ([email protected])

04/15/2019

INFORMS student chapter is organizing a coffee and chat with Dr Katya Scheinberg at ETB 3027 from 3-3:30 pm on 4/15 (today).

Katya Scheinberg is the Harvey E. Wagner Endowed Chair Professor at the ISE Department at Lehigh University and a director at the Lehigh Data, Intelligent Systems and Computation at Lehigh Institute. She worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a research staff member for over a decade before joining Lehigh in 2010.

She is currently the editor-in-chief of Mathematics of Operations Research and a co-editor of Mathematical Programming (see the attached flyer for more details).

Given her experience in both academia and private research institution, this would be a great opportunity for those who are weighing in academic-industry jobs.

Don't miss this opportunity. 😃

04/11/2019

Join us this Saturday, April 13, 2019, to get hands-on training on the data analytics software and earn JMP company issued certificate!

A 4-hour hands-on workshop by Kevin Potcner (a Statistical Scientist from JMP) to help us develop our skills in using JMP Pro software in our teaching and research. Topics covered will include Data Visualization, Basic Statistical Inference, Building and Evaluating Statistical Models, Multivariate Statistical Techniques, among others. No prior experience in using JMP is required.

Kevin Potcner is an Academic Ambassador for JMP Statistical Discovery Software from SAS. He has 25+ years of experience developing corporate training programs and providing statistical consulting services to help scientists and engineers apply the statistical sciences to optimize processes. He has worked with a wide range of industries including biotech, medical device, pharma, automotive, semiconductor, among many others.

Please scan the QR code in the attached poster to register for the event.

Location: ETB 1027
Time: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm (12:00 - 1:00 Lunch)

04/11/2019

Photos from 'Bag an Academic job' event.