Career Speaker Series: What Can I Do With My Math or STat Major?

Presenters: Dr. Alex Gutman and Dr. Brandon Greenwell

Company and industry: 84.51°, a data science company owned by Kroger.

Dr. Gutman and Dr. Greenwell are both double Raiders who will describe their career paths, share opportunities available through the Early Career Paths program at 84.51, and answer your questions about how to prepare yourselves for a career after graduation.

Bio Sketch:

Dr. Alex Gutman is a data scientist, author, and corporate trainer who enjoys teaching a wide variety of data science topics to technical and non-technical audiences. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Math from Wright State University and his Ph.D. in Applied Math from the Air Force Institute of Technology. In 2019, he received a Fulbright Specialist grant to teach data science and machine learning in Kyrgyzstan. His book, “Becoming a Data Head: How to Think, Speak, and Understand Data Science, Statistics, and Machine Learning,” was published by Wiley in 2021. 

Dr. Brandon Greenwell is a lead data scientist at 84.51°, where he works on a diverse team to enable, empower, and encourage others to successfully apply statistical and machine learning to help solve real business problems. He received a B.S. in Statistics in 2009 and an M.S. in Applied Statistics in 2011 from Wright State University and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 2014 from the Air Force Institute of Technology. He was part of the adjunct graduate faculty at Wright State University, is a current adjunct instructor at the University of Cincinnati, the author of several R packages on CRAN, coauthor of "Hands-on Machine Learning with R" (by CRC Press), and author of "An introduction to tree-based methods (with examples in R)" (forthcoming by CRC Press)