The University of Michigan Math department is an academic member of the Erdos Institute, an organization founded by OSU math professor Roman Holowinsky to help “PhDs get the jobs they love and companies get the PhDs they need.” Each semester, the Erdos Institute hosts a data science boot camp where hundreds of PhD students gain…
Category: Invitations to Industry
Preparing for a career outside the academy
In Ethan’s words… Maybe your interest in a life outside the academy started like mine. I love doing math research—really, I do. Learning from and working with my research advisor has taught me to approach problems carefully and with different strategies—most of these strategies fail, but in math only one has to work. Sure research…
Erdos Institute Spring Cohort forming
Olivia Haimerl, Community Manager for the Erdos Institute, would like me to post the following message to the UM community (Graduate students, post-docs, and alumni of both) about the various opportunities for non-academic career exploration and training for Math PhDs they are offering this spring. Check out her detailed message below the poster! Hi everyone!…
Career opportunities for Math PhDs
Please join us next Friday, September 23 at 4 pm in 1372 East Hall, with refreshments following at 5pm in the lower atrium to learn about some careers in national defense for mathematics PhD. All math graduate students and post-docs are encouraged to come learn about opportunities for themselves and/or students. Though the discussion will…
Erdös Institute Career Development Fall program
The Erdös Institute was founded by number theorist Professor Roman Holowinsky (OSU) as a way to help math PhDs find the careers they love and companies the math PhDs they need. Their career development program (fall cohort) for PhD students and post-docs interested in learning about non-academic careers and/or some of the skills needed for…
Why I landed an industry job
by Yiwang Chen (UM Math PhD 2022) Now at Google There is always this question that crosses your mind at least once when you are working on your Ph.D., namely, industry or academia? As many Ph.D. students, my initial thought would be to stay in academia. However, after a summer encounter with the “Invitation to…
Alumnus Alexander Zaitzeff to speak in Invitations to Industry
The Invitations to Industry Spring 2022 Seminar Series begins Monday, February 7 at 12pm ET with Dr. Alexander Zaitzeff, Senior Research Engineer at Two Six Technologies! Alex is a 2020 AIM PhD graduate from Michigan Math. Alexander Zaitzeff is currently working as a Senior Research Engineer at Two Six Technologies on machine learning cyber security and other exciting topics, after finishing his PhD…
Academia to Tech: Advice from Luis Serrano
Luis Serrano (UM Math PhD 2010) offered insight and advice to fellow travelers considering a career change from academia to tech. Luis is currently a Quantum Artificial Intelligence Research Scientist at Zapata Computing, a Boston company offering positions and internships (although Luis himself is at their Toronto office and they also offer fully remote positions).…
Luis Serrano to speak in Invitations to Industry Monday
Our own Luis Serrano (UM Math PhD 2010) will be speaking Monday November 15 at Noon in the Invitations to Industry seminar, jointly sponsored by the Erdos Institute. Don’t miss Luis! He’s an incredibly helpful resource for our PhD students and post-docs interested in *research* positions in industry. He himself is a quantum machine learning…
Come meet Alum Florian Block and learn about finance jobs for Math PhDs
More about non-Academic Careers for Math PhDs To learn more about Dr. Block or PDT Partners, please see the links below.Florian Block, PhDPDT Partners: PDT, which stands for Process Driven Trading, was founded by Peter Muller in 1993 as a proprietary trading group within Morgan Stanley. In 2013, after establishing a 19-year track record finding inefficiencies…