Careers

Ricky currently works as a statistician and database analyst in the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Calgary. Whether it's looking at factors affecting food allergies in Canada or the prevalence of different inflammatory conditions among the First Nations population of Alberta, Ricky always finds his work to be interesting, challenging, and changing.

Vincenzo works as an actuarial analyst in the insurance industry, helping his company to develop pricing models for auto insurance. Vincenzo has previously worked as a fund analyst for a wealth management company.

Jennifer has worked in health research, first as a Statistical Analyst looking at cardiovascular outcomes at the Population Health Research Institute and currently as an Analytic Epidemiologist investigating surgical outcomes with the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. She feels that her experiences in the department of Mathematics and Statistics prepared her well in her career: she was able to secure a position immediately upon graduation in the field she is interested in, and has been able to apply and expand on her knowledge on a daily basis.

Emily works as a technical trainer for ION Concept Systems in Scotland, a software company that develops navigation software for seismic exploration vessels. Emily specialises in teaching the mathematics involved in positioning the seismic equipment being towed behind the vessel. Last year, she spent some time on one of these vessels sailing off the northwest coast of Australia, using the software to predict the behaviour of the currents to improve the efficiency of the survey.

Chris works as an Analyst in Advanced Analytics for Economical Insurance. Working in Advanced Analytics has given him a great opportunity to exercise the statistical modelling skills and statistics knowledge he gained through his time studying at the University of Guelph. As an Analyst at Economical, he has been heavily involved with both the technical and non-technical aspects of data-driven, project-based work. The typical responsibilities that accompany this role are: data cleansing, preparation, and reconciliation; model development, validation, and deployment; documentation and report creation; and connecting and presenting to various stakeholders on project results.

During his time with Economical he has been involved with several projects. As an example, he established market penetration and risk concentration metrics to better understand the spatial distribution of Economical’s auto/property policies and created GIS, web-based tools to allow users to interact with this spatial data. He also analyzed the results of marketing campaigns to determine ROI and the quality of business generated from the campaigns, as well as developed and validated statistical models which estimate the likelihood of flood in given geographical areas. While this work has been challenging, the knowledge base he developed in the Masters program at Guelph allowed him to contribute effectively and successfully to each project.

Taryn is a graduate from the Bioinformatics Master's program. She currently works at Public Health Ontario as a Biocomputational Analyst.  In this role, she develops pipelines to automate the analysis of data produced from next generation sequencing of clinical samples. The goal of these analyses is to increase the speed and accuracy of diagnosis of infectious disease in patients.

Amber develops, executes and monitors statistical models and consumer segmentations to assist in predicting credit card customer risk and behaviour. Amber provides analysis on business problems to drive profitability.

Tamara works at the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) as a Statistical Analyst. She works with a team of 20 statisticians and 9 biometric programmers and collaborates with researchers from McMaster University, Hamilton Health Sciences and other research institutions world wide. Tamara works primarily in clinical trials and is involved with data analysis, data validation and manuscript preparation.

Jeffrey is a software engineer in an internet start-up. He is currently developing the mathematics behind a model of the entire universe of products that can be purchased online.

Lisa is a Data Scientist at Figure 1, a crowdsourced photo sharing app for healthcare professionals, helping save lives with mathematics! She uses Mathematics and Statistics to help make informed business decisions and improve her product.

Rachael finished her undergraduate studies at the University of Guelph in Applied Mathematics and Statistics and then left to complete her Bachelor of Education. Rachael currently lives in Vancouver and teaches Enriched Mathematics at Our Lady of Perpetual Help elementary school.

Anjali also completed graduate studies in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and recently finished medical school. She is now in her residency for Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Nathaniel received the Governor General Silver Medal for highest cumulative average, and conducted research in quantum information theory. Nathaniel worked at the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo and now holds a faculty position.

Ana uses her education, knowledge and experience to meet the analytical needs of Business Intelligence department at The Co-operators through data and business process analysis, quality assurance, client coaching, guidance & support, in addition to design, construction, testing and reconciliation of project specific requirements. She previously worked as a Portfolio Risk Specialist at a major bank as well as a Reporting Analyst at an investment management firm.

Sarah has worked in the automotive and banking industries. Sarah uses evolutionary computation to improve efficiency in industrial scheduling problems. Sarah's research has taken her around the world to test her methods at different facilities.