-Attended and assisted the PI to receive a micro-grant arranged by the Center for Technology Commercialization for business validation activities (equivalent to the CTC Business & Commercialization micro-grant Stage 1 efforts). Efforts are customized with CTC after the main SBIR Ready programming and will only be granted to teams prepping for an SBIR submission.

-Attended MMLS 2018 organized by the UChicago. The MMLS aims to convene regional machine learning researchers for stimulating discussions and debates, to foster cross-institutional collaboration, and to showcase the collective talent of machine learning researchers at all career stages.

-Joined the SBIR Ready program coordinated by the Center for Technology Commercialization (CTC) that supports Wisconsin Innovators and technology-based firms from Feasibility to Funding, provide hands-on coaching and counseling in: Feasibility analysis using Lean Startup, Federal funding through SBIR/STTR grants and contracts, and Business and commercialization planning.

-It was a one-day dynamic and innovative program is designed for students interested in exploring the best approaches to leadership based on their unique talents and interests. This program was offered by the Marquette University Graduate School with generous support from the Arthur J. Schmitt Foundation (Monday, April 23, 2018).

-Attended the meeting organized by the Office of Statistical Consulting and Training (OSCT), Marquette University, April 13, 2018

-Joined the Mason modeling days organized by the Department of Mathematical Sciences of George Mason University. It was a 4-day Mason Modeling Days workshop (June 28-July 1, 2017) at Key Bridge Marriott hotel in Rosslyn, VA. The aim of the workshop was to get together groups of undergraduate, graduate students and faculty from different universities around the country to work on real-life applied mathematics problems arising in other disciplines. Participants were engaged in intensive brainstorming sessions and present their findings in a form of a written report and an oral presentation during the last day of the workshop.

-Attended the workshop arranged by the Yale University (June 9-10, 2017). This was a two-day workshop which featured ten speakers that celebrated the far-reaching impact in applied mathematics of the work of both Charlie Epstein and Leslie Greengard. The topics included fast algorithms, PDEs and integral equations, medical imaging, numerical analysis, population genetics, and data analysis. (https://cims.nyu.edu/~oneil/egfest2017/)

-Joined the meeting torganized by the University of Colorado Boulder, College of Engineering and Applied Science, Boulder, Colorado June 14-16, 2017. PETSc, the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computing, is one of the world’s most widely used software libraries for high-performance computational science. The workshop provided themes on the Algorithms: Presentations on advanced algorithms that use PETSc, Applications: Presentations on large-scale application codes that use PETSc. High-performance numerical software library design, Future directions, including new hardware architectures (http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/meetings/2017/cv_index.html).

-Attended the Conference on Nonconvex Statistical Learning held at the University of Southern California May 26-27, 2017. The goal of the conference was to pull together “researchers at all levels, from established to junior, and from cross disciplines that include computational and applied mathematics, optimization, statistics, computer science, and engineering to report on the state of the art of the conference subject, to exchange ideas for its further development, and to foster collaborations among the participants with the goal of advancing the science of the field of tistical learning and promoting the interfaces of the involved disciplines.”