Data Science KC University & Early Career Showcase

🎓 The Next Generation of Data Science Takes the Stage! 🚀

Join us at the Burns & McDonnell World Headquarters for our University & Early Career Showcase. Talented university students, recent graduates, and emerging professionals from across the Kansas City region will present lightning talks about their work in data science. From artificial intelligence and natural language processing to energy optimization, healthcare, and mathematical paradoxes, this year’s lineup highlights the incredible variety of challenges being tackled by emerging data science talent.

Thank you to Burns & McDonnell for hosting and sponsoring this event and supporting the Kansas City data science community!

🎤 Meet Our Speakers!

🦀 Building Faster Reinforcement Learning with Rust
Ethan Almloff | University of Central Missouri

🎯 Job Applicants – Best Fit
Cameron Miller | Rockhurst University

⚡ Strategic BESS (Battery Energy Storage System) Dispatch
Ethan Robert Lenhardt | University of Missouri–Columbia / Evergy

🗳️ Extreme Instances of the Committee Size Paradoxes
Baigali Nyamdulam | William Jewell College

🏥 Evaluating Clinical Trial Consent Forms Using LLMs and Health Literacy Assessment Tools
Elahe Ghadiri | University of Kansas Medical Center

🛍️ Retail AI Plus: Turning Walmart Customer Reviews into Actionable Insights with NLP
Steve Okyere Oduro-Amoyaw | Park University