REU Students present findings to State Street at WPI Seaport

Students from the NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Industrial Mathematics and Statistics gave a presentation on the findings of their research to State Street in Boston, MA, on July 26, 2018. Students. In the presentations the students showed how techniques from machine learning can help in the predication of trade exemptions which will help […]

REU Students Present at the Mathematics Institute for Secondary Teaching

Both teams in the NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Industrial Mathematics and Statistics gave presentations at the Mathematics Institute for Secondary Teaching at WPI on July 17 and 18, 2018.  The Applied and Industrial Mathematics Institute for Secondary Teaching offers workshops for high school mathematics teachers interested in learning more about how high school math is […]

NSF-REU students visit State Street in Quincy, MA

Students from the NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Industrial Mathematics and Statistics visited the State Street Corporation in Quincy, MA, on June 25, 2018.  With advisors Prof. Stephan Sturm and Prof. Marcel Blais, students discussed with State Street management their plans to move their post-trade record keeping to a distributed ledger system and how […]

CIMS Hosts Panel for Industrial Careers in Mathematics

On June 11, 2018, CIMS hosted a panel for industrial careers in mathematics, as part of the NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Industrial Mathematics and Statistics.  The panel consisted of Alana Aubin, EverQuote Dr. Christopher Teixeira,  MITRE Corporation Krystel Walker, Vistaprint Dr. Joseph Gaone, PhD WPI and starting at MITRE this fall. Discussion centered […]

Daily Herd: WPI FinTech Collaborative

CIMS member Marcel Blais was featured in an article in the Daily Herd, where work by WPI representatives of the WPI FinTech Collaborative was highlighted at the opening of the WPI Seaport Opening.  The WPI FinTech Collaborative is coordinated by CIMS and by the WPI Wall Street Project Center.