IMA Industrial Problems Seminar Features SRT Labs

SRT Labs Senior Data Analyst Dr. Michelle Snider presented in the Industrial Problems Seminar at the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) in April 2023. This seminar series is the oldest and longest running such series in industrial mathematics, and invites industrial researchers to present their work to IMA postdocs, visitors, and graduate students. Dr. Snider highlighted how her background in theoretical mathematics allows her to tackle complicated and sometimes messy real-world problems.

Dr. Snider’s abstract: “Service Robotics & Technologies (SRT Labs) brings legacy infrastructure, smart sensors, and collaborative robotics into a unified data management ecosystem in order to monitor, analyze and automate systems.  Applications range from smart laboratories to smart buildings to smart cities. The smart technology space provides a wealth of interesting projects which may not immediately sound like math problems but whose solutions often greatly benefit from a mathematical perspective. In this talk, I will discuss some different projects where my team applied mathematical approaches to find realistically implementable solutions, interspersed with career lessons learned along the way.”