Abstract:
My talk will touch on both career paths within and outside academia. I'll be talking about the lessons I learned from my academic job-hunting experience and how the students can prepare themselves to have a better chance of succeeding in the competitive academic job market. I would also share some examples to motivate the students to discover or possibly develop a career path based on transferable skills and personal interests outside academia.

Bio:
Hassan Rafique received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences from The University of Iowa in 2020. His dissertation work is on Optimization and Interpretable Machine Learning. Since August 2020, Hassan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Indianapolis, leading their undergraduate data science program.