James Bono
Principal Research Lead at ClimaTwin®
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Bono is a Principal Research Lead at Microsoft Security with 13 years of experience applying microeconomic methods, causal inference, and decision sciences to quantify cyber risk and inform high‑stakes product and policy decisions. He leads the Economics and Decision Sciences team and has shaped Microsoft Security’s Ambition AI research agenda, translating rigorous academic techniques into operational risk measurement and strategic business insights. Prior roles span senior economic consulting and academic research, where he built mathematical models at the intersection of game theory, machine learning, and behavioral economics. Based in the Bay Area, he combines PhD‑level economics training with hands‑on analytics to push cyber risk quantification toward a scientific standard, and serves on the advisory board of ClimaTwin®, reflecting cross‑domain interest in climate and systems modeling.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.A International Studies Mathematics, B.A International Studies Mathematics at American UniversityUniversity of California, Irvine
Chinese
Github Skills (8)
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
python8
tensorflow7
neural-network6
ml5
modeling5
deep-neural-networks5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
jwbono/PyNFG
Feb 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:95 commits in 6 months
pythongamessolvingmodelingpython-package
jwbono/nature-music
Feb 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:8 pushes in 4 months
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