The Mississippi State Bagley College of Engineering's Office of Diversity Programs and Student Development is sponsoring an Engineering Innovation Talk. The presenter is 2007 MSU computer engineering alumna Nashlie H. Sephus, a Jackson native who leads the Amazon/A9 visual search tech team, which recently launched visual search for replacement parts on the Amazon Shopping app. This technology was a result of former startup Partpic (Atlanta) being acquired by Amazon, for which Sephus was chief technology officer. Prior to working at Partpic, Sephus received her Ph.D. from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014 and worked for a year with Exponent, a technical consulting firm in New York City. Sephus recently became founder and CEO of The Bean Path, a Jackson-based nonprofit that assists individuals with technical expertise and guidance.