Speakers for this event

• Durriya Doctor

  Durriya Doctor

  Durriya Doctor is a Software Engineering and Technology leader. She started her career as a Software Engineer working on Operating Systems. She has worked in a number of different technology areas including Telecom Services, Video Editing and Operating System Services and has a proven track record of bringing new products to the market all the way from ideation to launch in multiple domains including Telecom Services, Video Editing and Operating System Services. Durriya currently works in Technical Program Management at Mathworks, Inc.

• Gigliola Staffilani

  Gigliola Staffilani

  Gigliola Staffilani is the Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Mathematics at MIT since 2007. She received the B.S. equivalent from the University of Bologna in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. Following a Szegö Assistant Professorship at Stanford, she had faculty appointments at Stanford, Princeton and Brown before joining the MIT mathematics faculty in 2002. At Stanford, she received the Harold M. Bacon Memorial Teaching Award in 1997, and was given the Frederick E. Terman Award for young faculty in 1998. She was a Sloan fellow from 2000-02. Professor Staffilani was member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1996 and 2003, and member of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2010.
  In 2013 Professor Staffilani was elected member of the Massachusetts Academy of Science and a fellow of the AMS, and in 2014 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017 she received a Guggenheim fellowship and a Simons Fellowship in Mathematics. In 2018 she received the MIT Earll M. Murman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising and in 2021 she was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.