Usama Fayyad speaks with Chris Wiggins – Associate Professor at Columbia University and Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times. Tune in to hear Chris discuss his history in data and AI, and hear his views on social physics, generative AI, and experiential AI.
Speaker’s name: Chris Wiggins
Speaker Bio: Chris Wiggins received a B.A. in Physics with a minor in Math from Columbia College in 1993 and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Princeton University in 1998. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia and is affiliated with Columbia’s Data Science Institute, Department of Systems Biology, and Department of Statistics.
As of January 2014, he is also the Chief Data Scientist at the New York Times. He co-founded hackNY.org, an experiential learning program pairing computational and quantitative students with NYC startups via a 10-week structured internship program and twice-annual student `hackathons’ (24-hour coding events).
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