![]() ![]() But yeah, it’s been kind of a weird journey, from weather data and computer science to finance.” “You’ve got billionaire clients coming to your office, you’re moving global markets, and you’re creating and designing your own solutions to problems that are brand new. “I really like the day-to-day pace of what’s going on, what’s changing, where markets are heading,” he said. You might think someone with NASA on his résumé would be a better fit in a science program, but what really excites Mazaika is the thrill of the markets. “It’s a programming problem as well as a data problem - you’re not only housing the data, you’re creating tools so you can easily package the right data and share it with scientists studying weather or climate.” Day-to-day market excitement “What they do is maintain these petabytes of data - everything from CO2 levels, temperatures, radiation - from satellites that have been in orbit for 20, maybe 30 years,” he said. He worked in the Langley Research Center’s atmospheric science data center, which stores the satellite-generated data that’s constantly raining down to Earth. Mazaika wasn’t actually a rocket scientist at NASA. “I see a real need for financial innovation, and I think Stevens has prepared me to meet that challenge.” “There’s so much innovation in finance right now - you hear about things like machine learning and it just gets me thinking about how that can be applied to something practical in the industry,” he said. His ability to use technology and data in framing and solving problems is a product of his Stevens coursework, his varied internships and his natural curiosity, which have put him in elite company as a Neupauer scholar - Stevens' most prestigious academic honor.
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