Mario BaÑuelos

2024

• April - DataFest at Fresno State

• February -  NERDS 2024 Camp

2023

• November

  • SIAM Committee on Science Policy Meeting, Washington, D.C.

  • Fresno State DMD!

• October - National Diversity in STEM Conference, Portland, OR

• August - Club & Organization Fair (USU Balcony) - SIAM Chapter

• June - Co-directing the DSI CAN Summer Experience at UChicago. 

• May - AMS Spring Western Sectional Meeting at Fresno State

• April

  • DataFest at Fresno State. Congratulations to winners from the research group - Nathalie (best insight), Emma, Nicholas, Daniel, and Nathan (best model)!

  • Gagandeep Kaur wins the EECU Outstanding Math Presentation at the Central California Research Symposium!

  • 5th Central Valley Regional SIAM Student Chapter Conference. Emma Andrade wins best undergraduate poster award!

• March

  • SIAM Committee on Science Policy Meeting

  • CSU STEM-NET Conference at Cal Poly Pomona.

  • CSU Bakersfield Math Colloquium presentation.

• January - STESSA co-development of data science courses with Egyptian faculty.

2022

• November: 

  • Emma and Nicholas present our conference paper at APSIPA 2022!

  • Research group members highlighted  in data.org article on social impact!

• October - Co-led Modern Math Workshop Mini-course with David Uminsky on The Mathematics of Data Science.

• September - APSIPA 2022 paper on epistasis with Emma Andrade and Nicholas Tom accepted!

• August - Nathalie Valenzuela and Gagandeep Kaur complete DSI Summer Lab at UChicago.

• July -  SIAM ED 22 + AN 22. Deconstructing Whiteness Talk.

• June - George Washington Carver Pre-Collegiate Academy: Black Excellence in Science and Technology (B.E.S.T.)  with Jewel of Justice!

• May - Partnership with UChicago and Data.org announced, with a focus on data science for social impact!

• April 

  • STESSA Workshop with 21PSTEM. 

  • Participated with the SIAM CSP at Washington, D.C. as a SIAM Science Policy Fellow!

2021

• December: Presented at APSIPA 2021 with Marissa Hernandez!

• September: Our paper (with Marissa Hernandez) on Epistasis was accepted to APSIPA 2021!

• July: SIAM Annual Conference & Workshop Celebrating Diversity Minisymposia (+ Virtual Luncheon)!

• April: 

  • Colloquium Talks at Sonoma and San Jose State

  • Cascadia Open Education Summit

• March: 

  • Colloquium Talks at CSU East Bay and CSU Long Beach

  • Society for Mathematical Biology Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Workshop

• Spring 2021: Daniel Theng, Oscar Castanos, and Victoria Morada join the research group!

2020

• December: Erica Sawyer completed her M.A. in Mathematics!

• November: Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Genomic Variation talk at ABRCMS 2020.

• October: 

  • Enseñamos: Anti-Racism in Math

  • Our paper (with Erica Sawyer, Roummel Marcia, and Suzanne Sindi) on SV detection was accepted to APSIPA 2020!

• May: 

  • Awarded NIH grant to use statistical models for predicting Valley Fever outcomes. Research group students present at the College of Science and Mathematics Virtual Showcase.

  • Our papers (co-authored with Omar DeGuchy, Melissa Spence, Roummel Marcia, and Suzanne Sindi)  on detecting genomic structural variation were accepted to EUSIPCO 2020!

• March: Erica Sawyer presented joint work at the 2020 Data Science and Image Analysis Conference of the Pacific Northwest.

• January:  Panelist on AMS Committee on Education Panel Discussion: Next Steps: Mathematics Departments and the Explosive Growth of Computational and Quantitative Offerings in Higher Education at JMM 2020

2019​​​

• December: Presented at the 2nd Latinx in AI Workshop (co-located with NeurIPS 2019)

• October:  

  • Chaired the "Scientific Computing and Data Science" Session at SACNAS 2019 in Hawaii. 

  • Our abstract, co-authored with Omar DeGuchy, on structural variation detection was accepted to the 2019 Latinx in AI workshop!

• September: Presented at the 2019 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) in A Coruña, Spain.

• June: Our Paper, co-authored with David Uminsky, Rosa Garza, Lillian González-Albino, and Sylvia Nwakanma,  "Detecting Higher Order Genomic Variant Interactions with Spectral Analysis" was accepted to the 2019 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)!

• April: 

  • Graduate student Erica Sawyer presented at the North California Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (NCUMC) in Chico, California.​

  • Organized a group of Fresno State students to attend the 4th Annual Central Valley SIAM Regional Conference in Merced, CA.

• March: Presented "Leveraging Inheritance and Deep Learning to Detect Genomic Variation" at the Data Institute SF Annual Conference.

• February: Organized a SIAM Workshop Celebrating Diversity (WCD) and presented at the SIAM Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (CSE19) in Spokane, Washington.

• January: Presented at the 2019 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) for the MAA Invited Paper Session Trends in Mathematical and Computational Biology

2018​

• December: Presented at the 1st Latinx in AI Research Workshop, co-located with the 2018 Nueral Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Conference.​

• October: Presented at the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Math Department Colloquium in San Luis Obispo, California.​

• August: Presented at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2018 in Rio.​

• May: Our paper (co-authored with Prof. Suzanne Sindi), "Modeling Transposable Elements with Fragmentation Equations," accepted to Mathematical Biosciences.​

• April: Presented at the 2018 International Conference of Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Calgary, Alberta.​

• March: Organized a group to attend the Latinx in Mathematical Sciences Conference at the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) in Los Angeles, California.

• January: ​Presented at the 2018 Joint Math Meetings (JMM) in San Diego, California.​