Chris Kuo
Director Of Data Science
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Kuo is a Director of Data Science based in New York with eight years in senior analytics leadership and a deep background in predictive modeling across insurance and finance. He currently leads data science at The Hartford while teaching applied analytics at Columbia University, blending hands-on model development with strategic team building and mentorship. His career spans senior roles at AIG and Liberty Mutual where he delivered end-to-end modeling, geospatial visualization, NLP, and production analytics that directly informed business priorities. Trained as a PhD economist with a BS in nuclear engineering and a CPCU designation, he combines rigorous quantitative research with domain expertise in property & casualty risk. Known for fostering collaborative cultures, he pairs academic teaching and journal reviewing with practical implementation of advanced techniques like deep learning and topic modeling. An educator-practitioner who translates complex methods into actionable business impact, he brings uncommon breadth from classroom to enterprise production.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
CPCU, CPCU at Chartered Property Casualty UnderwriterColumbia UniversityB.S Nuclear Engineering, B.S Nuclear Engineering at National Tsing Hua UniversityPh.D. Economics, Ph.D. Economics at Stony Brook University
Chinese
Github Skills (5)
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
gradient-boosting4
shap3
shapley2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
ChrisKuoColumbiaU/FraudDetection
Dec 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:38 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
ChrisKuoColumbiaU/My_documents
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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