Cristián Bravo
Professor And Canada Research Chair In Banking And Insurance Analytics at Western University
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolCristián Bravo is a Canada Research Chair and tenured professor specializing in banking and insurance analytics, with nine years of academic experience translating data science into practical credit risk solutions for micro-entrepreneurs and SMEs. He leads the Banking Analytics Lab, which has secured over CAD 13M in funding and partners globally to deploy deep learning, text/image analytics, and social network methods into real-world credit scoring and fraud detection. Cristián blends rigorous academic research—serving on editorial boards and as a former Turing Fellow—with hands-on consulting for banks and public institutions, giving him a rare ability to move models from theory to production. His background as an industrial engineer and PhD in Engineering Systems underpins a systems-level approach to risk modelling, while his GitHub and lab presence signal an open, collaborative research culture.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Engineering Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Engineering Systems at Universidad de Chile
Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (15)
text-mining10
keras10
xgboost9
image-classification9
deep-learning8
binning8
python5
solidity3
smart-contracts3
blockchain3
ethereum3
machine-learning1
support-vector-machine1
manifold1
vector1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CBravoR/AdvancedAnalyticsLabs
Apr 2019 - Feb 2023
Analytics labs notebooks for Statistics and Business School students
Contributions:105 commits, 4 PRs, 144 pushes in 3 years 10 months
basel-capital-requirementsbond-pricingcnncredit-scoringdeep-learning
Banking-Analytics-Lab/EMP-Py
Mar 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
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