Math in Industry Symposium

Join us for the inaugural Math in Industry Symposium, where mathematicians from diverse industries will engage in discussions on the intersection of their mathematical expertise and professional endeavors. The symposium will span two days, from Feb. 28 to March 1, 2025, and will feature four talks by accomplished FSU Mathematics alumni. A jobs panel at the end of the symposium will provide networking opportunities for graduate students. All the talks are at 101 Love Building. Friday reception and Saturday breakfast are at 204B Love Building.

Event Schedule

Friday, Feb. 28, 2025

Talk 1

3:05-3:35 p.m.

“Mathematics in Sepsis: From immunologic discovery to point-of-care device development”

Deborah Striegel, biomath research and development lead, ACESO

Sepsis occurs when the body, while battling an infection, attacks healthy tissue possibly leading to organ damage and death. It is responsible for 11 million deaths per year and disproportionately affects people living in low- and middle-income countries. At the Austere environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcome (ACESO), our focus is on providing solutions for sepsis care in low-resource settings. The diagnosis and treatment of sepsis is hindered by the heterogeneity in symptoms observed and determining the underlying infections associated with sepsis in a timely manner for proper treatment of the infection. Within the Biomath Research and Development group at ACESO, we utilize and develop mathematical tools to make advances in the biological understanding of sepsis and to translate knowledge to develop point-of-care devices guiding treatment in austere environments.

Talk 2

3:40-4:10 p.m.

“Wholesale Credit Risk Model Validation”

Yiran Chen, model validation senior analyst, Citi

Credit risk is the largest risk type that most banks are exposed to. Banks use a wide range of models to estimate exposure for traded products and to undertake stress testing, which requires advanced mathematical and modeling skills. This talk will introduce the basic framework of wholesale credit risk component models from a model validator's perspective.

Reception

4:15 p.m.

Saturday, March 1, 2025

Breakfast

9-10:15 a.m.

Talk 1

10:15-10:45 a.m.

“Various Games in Blockchain”

John Bergschneider, senior software engineer, Monad Labs

A fundamental problem in decentralized systems is the Byzantine Generals Problem. Constraining this problem for a system that contains an almost Turing complete language and associated state is an active area of research for blockchains. Many solutions have different trade-offs. These tradeoffs, themselves, introduce a rich area of problems ranging from game theory to cryptography. A particular example is defining cryptography primitives that scale to millions while remaining efficient to compute or defining auction mechanisms for pricing different types of compute. In this talk, we will give an overview of the structure of blockchain and discuss some open problems in the space.

Coffee break

10:45-11:15 a.m.

Talk 2

11:15-11:45 a.m.

“Disease Detection with AI and Observer Variability”

Orhan Akal, AI consultant

This talk shows the impact of AI algorithms in dental caries detection and addresses the challenge of observer variability among dentists. This study evaluated the performance of 14 independent readers in detecting caries on bitewing (BW) and periapical (PA) radiographs. Results revealed an average F1 score of 0.66 for caries detection, with varying performance across different caries types and radiograph modalities. Highlighting the significant variability in radiographic caries evaluation among dentists, underscoring the improvement comes with AI to provide more standardized and consistent assessments in dental diagnostics. These findings emphasize the importance of addressing observer variability in developing robust AI systems for disease detection in dentistry.

Job panel

12-12:30 p.m.