{"id":220,"date":"2015-09-02T16:27:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T21:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mssp\/?page_id=220"},"modified":"2025-04-30T10:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T14:27:18","slug":"speakerseries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mssp\/community\/events\/speakerseries\/","title":{"rendered":"Stats@Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The mission of the <i>Statistics@Work<\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> speaker series is to expose students of all levels to how statistics is used in practice across a large swath of data science fields. The MSSP program invites speakers from industry to present on the data-centric challenges that accompany a career in their sector, and the manner in which statistical training can help meet those challenges. Opportunity for informal \u201cmeet-and-greet\u201d follows each presentation, where students and speakers chat over refreshments.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carlos Morales, Director, Global Portfolio Strategy, Liberty Mutual<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alok Pattani, Quantitative Analyst, Google<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marc L. Berger, Vice President, Real World Data and Analytics in the Global Health &amp; Value Group, Pfizer Inc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jason Xin, Principal Data Scientist, Optum Enterprise Analytics<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clementine Plati, Data Scientist, TripAdvisor<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Xiaoyu Jiang, Director, Sanofi<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Liu, Director of Data Science, CVS Health<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tom Foth, Senior Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kate Donahue, Senior Data Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/mssp\/files\/2023\/02\/mssp_logo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"109\" height=\"109\" class=\"wp-image-1918 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mssp\/files\/2023\/02\/mssp_logo.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mssp\/files\/2023\/02\/mssp_logo-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mssp\/files\/2023\/02\/mssp_logo-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 109px) 100vw, 109px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission of the Statistics@Work speaker series is to expose students of all levels to how statistics is used in practice across a large swath of data science fields. The MSSP program invites speakers from industry to present on the data-centric challenges that accompany a career in their sector, and the manner in which statistical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10474,"featured_media":0,"parent":2681,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2680,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions\/2680"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}