Abstract: As an analytics consultant at Accenture, Nicole has had the opportunity to tackle fascinating and impactful real-world problems that leverage the diverse and valuable skills taught at ICME. In this talk, Nicole will take you on a journey through some of her recent consulting projects. You'll get an inside look at how she increased efficiency and reduced costs at a major US bakery using network design optimization, how she used mixed-integer scheduling techniques to help a startup glass manufacturing company streamline their production of bottles, and how she worked with a leading tech company to optimally allocate spare parts across global data centers using automated processes. Those three projects alone have been calculated to make a total impact of over $10 million. Whether you're a graduate student, faculty member, or simply interested in the application of computational mathematics, you'll leave this talk with a deeper understanding of how computational and mathematical engineering techniques are making a real impact in the world.

Bio: Nicole Rahmani graduated with her PhD from ICME in 2012 with a focus on optimization. After graduation, Nicole spent 4 years at IBM Research Ireland as an Optimization Research Scientist before joining End-to-End Analytics (E2E), an analytics consulting company based in Palo Alto. In 2021, E2E became part of Accenture, where Nicole is now a Director of Data Science. She%E2%80%99s spent her career implementing analytics and optimization solutions across Fortune 500 companies to help improve their business processes. Nicole continues to work on fun and challenging real-world analytics projects in a wide range of industry applications. Nicole is currently the Principal Director of Data Science at Accenture.

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