Chris Wiggins
Adviser To The Dean For AI Strategy, Columbia College
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChris Wiggins is an applied mathematician and AI strategist who blends academic rigor with newsroom and startup pragmatism, serving as Associate Professor at Columbia and former Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times. He builds and leads cross-disciplinary teams to turn machine learning research into deployed solutions for business, editorial, and biomedical problems, and now advises Columbia College on AI strategy while heading CNN’s AI & ML efforts. A Princeton-trained theoretical physicist, he helped found Columbia’s systems biology and data science programs and co-founded hackNY to connect students with NYC startups. His work spans research, teaching, editorial roles (Journal of Machine Learning Research), and venture advising, reflecting a rare combination of deep theory and product impact. Notably, he has been recognized as an APS Fellow and leverages his long-standing academic-industry bridge to scale data science initiatives across institutions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Physics, BA, Physics at Columbia UniversityPhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Princeton University
Spanish, French, Japanese, Russian, German
Github Skills (27)
artificial-intelligence10
history10
data-science9
machine-learning9
huggingface8
modeling6
mathematics6
spring6
python6
pytorch6
scikit-learn5
scikit5
neural-network4
sicp3
science3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
data-ppf/data-ppf.github.io
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
website, lectures, and other material for Columbia University course "data: past, present, and future"
Contributions:1 review, 247 commits, 9 PRs in 6 years 3 months
columbia-universitydata-sciencemachine-learningdata-ethicscourse-data
chrishwiggins/mise
Jul 2012 - Nov 2022
Contributions:449 commits, 413 pushes, 1 comment in 10 years 6 months
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