Nathan James MBA 24

The flexibility or schedule to help work with a usual work schedule. The ability to have a school near where I live. The community. The list of reasons goes on and on. I am grateful that UC Davis gave me the opportunity to be apart of something bigger then myself and helped me grow in so many ways.

Food Trifecta Summit

Hosted by UC Davis GSM Food and Wine Leadership Club

  • April 14, 2023 11:00am - 12:30pm

Join us for a panel discussion of how companies can combine the "trifecta" of food—health, taste and sustainability—to create innovative solutions to our greatest problems.

C. Janie Chang

Academic Executive Director, Master of Professional Accountancy Program

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Research Expertise 
Human information processing in accounting settings, behavioral issues in managerial accounting and auditing, nature of expert judgments, group decision making, accounting information systems, audit analytics, and cross-cultural research.

Janie Chang is the academic executive director of the Master of Professional Accountancy (MPAc) program at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management.

Sprighub

Buy Better: Optimal User Paths and Spending 

Students will have an excellent opportunity to understand customer journeys and online purchase behavior, as well as participate in the full life cycle of data attributions model developments. This is a small, nimble silicon valley startup and students will get to work directly with the founders who are subject matter experts in their fields. 

Savvy Aviation

Establishing Aircraft Condition by Predictive Maintenance 

Students on this project will provide a set of software tools and create staff workflows to convert the unstructured condition data into quality structured condition data as efficiently as possible.

Qualcomm

Future of Computing Devices 

Qualcomm's Snapdragon compute platform brings the best of your smartphones together with the best of your laptop. Students on this project will dive deep into the ever-growing Compute market and analyze consumer needs, changing market demands and rapidly growing technological advancements to provide business insights to Qualcomm. 

Kyron Learning

Fourth-Grade Math and Markov Chains: The Little Chatbot That Could 

This project is something completely different. Students will work with the conversational AI startup to build a chatbot which will take the best instruction from the best math teachers and make it available to students worldwide. 

KQED

Forecasting the Future: KQED's Broadcast & Membership Evolution 

Students will perform an in-depth analysis of KQED's members with respect to their age and historical giving, including channels by which they give (direct mail, digital, and on-air pledge). While working on this project, students will gain deep skills in data analytics, modeling and consumer trends.

Gain Credit

Creating an interactive and intelligent anomaly detection system 

This project is designed to provide students with experience in Data Engineering, Visualization and Machine Learning. Students will get hands-on experience in seeing how Gain Credit is pushing the boundaries of lending science, using machine learning and advanced analytics, and reshaping what it means to be a fintech company.