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C h r i s t o p h e r Te i x e i r a

L e a d D a t a S c i e n t i s t , M I TR E

Mathematics to Serve the Public Interest

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Math + Baseball = Future Red Sox General Manager…

Mathematics BS from Worcester Polytechnic Institute

– Concentration in Applied Statistics

– Capstone Project: Statistical Analysis of Defensive

Production in Major League Baseball

Operations Research MS from George Mason University

– Concentration in Decision Analysis

– Capstone Project: Team Organization for Senior Softball

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How many ways can you use math?

Operations Research Analyst at SAIC

– NASA: Planning Missions to the Moon

– DHS: Securing our Public Transit Systems

Advanced Analytics Senior Consultant at IBM

– AETNA: Regionalized Fraud Analysis

– DOD: Defeating IEDs

Senior Analytic Consultant at Epsilon

– SunTrust: Real-time marketing

– Bank of America: Understanding customer sentiment

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Lead Data Scientist at MITRE

Using my skills from both school and

previous jobs

– Discrete Event Simulation, System Dynamics,

Agent Based Modeling

– Data Analysis and Processing

– Statistical Analysis and

Systems Engineering Techniques

– Data Visualization

Problems I help solve:

– How can we use math and statistics to better

serve Veterans waiting for benefits?

– Can simulations help us to plan how clean up

America’s nuclear waste more safely,

effectively, and within a reasonable cost?

– How can we make use of data and models to

run our own organization more effectively?

– Can predictive analytics be used to help

increase child welfare? Chris Teixeira at the White House for the White House Foster

Care & Technology Hackathon, May 28, 2016

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Evaluating Children at Risk

Source: https://www.behance.net/gallery/3751117/Stop-Child-Abuse

https://www.behance.net/gallery/3751117/Stop-Child-Abuse

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National Public-Private Partnership to Eliminate Abuse and Neglect Fatalities

ABUSE AND

NEGLECT

FATALITIES

FFRDC-operated, trusted analytic

environment

PROTECT OUR KIDS

ACT OF 2012and

CECANF Objectives

Identify

Analyze

Control

Manage

Predictive Risk Modeling, Data Visualization Tools, Monitoring

and Reporting

Integrated Stakeholder and Child Welfare Data

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N o t t h e s o c c e r c o m p a n y…

B u t t h e b e s t p l a c e t o w o r k yo u h a ve p r o b a b l y n e ve r h e a r d o f !

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Established to Serve the Public Interest

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Today We Operate Seven FFRDCs

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Understanding FFRDCs

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Our Employees

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Why do people at MITRE get a math degree?

Problem

Solving

Common

Language

Hard

Problems

Logical

Thinking

Diversity of

Problems

More Data

More Math

Math

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Over 650 people with a background in mathematics

What Jobs / Internships are available?

– Software Engineer

– Data Scientist

– Big Data Engineer

– Communications Network Intern

– Modeling and Analysis Lead

– Senior Computer Scientist

Over 50 open positions, both full time and internships (as of June 12, 2016)

– Cyber Security Engineer

– Systems Engineer

– Cryptologic Engineer

– Model Based Programming Intern

– Operations Research Analyst

– Modeling and Simulation Engineer

Math Careers at MITREwww.mitre.org/careers

Bachelor22%

Master57%

Doctor21%

Highest Degree of MITRE Staff with a Mathematics Degree

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