Entrepreneurship and Impact Series: AMA featuring David Radke

Davis Centre (DC) - DC 1302

Thursday, Feb 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM  - 6:00 PM EST 

{ "name":"Entrepreneurship and Impact Series: AMA featuring David Radke", "description": "https:\/\/ticketfi.com\/event\/6776\/entrepreneurship-and-impact-series-ama-featuring-david-radke\n\nWe welcome you to attend the Math Innovation Entrepreneurship and Impact Series featuring David Radke, Senior Research Scientist with the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL.\n\nJoin us for an exclusive 'Ask Me Anything' event featuring David on February 5, 2026, in DC 1302 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.\n\nDavid Radke (PhD '23) is a Senior Research Scientist with the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He works as part of the Hockey Strategy and Analytics team, helping to evaluate players, teams, and strategies from in-game data to assist coaching and roster construction decisions. His main areas of research include artificial intelligence, specifically multiagent systems and reinforcement learning, and sports analytics. While at Waterloo, David worked with Dr. Kate Larson and Dr. Tim Brecht studying the impact of teams, or sub-groups, on how reinforcement learning agents learn within multiagent systems. He was also an assistant captain of the Waterloo Men's Ice Hockey team during the first few years of his PhD. David and colleagues have published several papers at top AI and sports conferences, including IJCAI, AAMAS, RLC, and LINHAC, and earned a LINHAC best paper award in 2022 for their work on modeling passing lanes using NHL puck and player tracking data.\n\nWhether you dream of working in sports analytics, AI research, or just want to see how math and computation shape elite performance, this is a talk you won’t want to miss. \n\nA social reception will follow immediately after,  with refreshments. You must attend the talk to attend the reception.\n\n* Please note if you register for this event, you will be added to our mailing list for future events*\n\nFor more information, please visit the Math Innovation website. \n\nThe University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is centralized within our Indigenous Initiatives Office.\n", "startDate":"2026-02-05", "endDate":"2026-02-05", "startTime":"16:30", "endTime":"18:00", "location":"Davis Centre (DC) DC 1302 - ", "label":"Add to Calendar", "options":[ "Apple", "Google", "iCal", "Microsoft365", "Outlook.com", "Yahoo" ], "timeZone":"US/Eastern", "trigger":"click", "inline":true, "listStyle":"modal", "iCalFileName":"invite.ics" }