chris wiggins email: echo disjt.xjhhjot@dpmvncjb.fev | tr '[b-{]' '[a-z]' phone: (347) 878-1256 paper: Columbia University 428 S. W. Mudd Building, MC 4701 500 W. 120th St New York NY 10027 locations: Rm 428, Mudd, Data Science Institute

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Chris Wiggins is 
  an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University and 
  the Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times. 
At Columbia he is a founding member of the 
  executive committee of the Data Science Institute, and of
  the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics as well as
  the Department of Systems Biology, and is
  affiliated faculty in Statistics. 
He is a co-founder and co-organizer of hackNY (http://hackNY.org), 
  a nonprofit which since 2010 has organized once a semester student hackathons 
  and the hackNY Fellows Program, a structured summer internship at NYC startups. 
Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia 
  he was a Courant Instructor at NYU (1998-2001) 
  and earned his PhD at Princeton University (1993-1998) in theoretical physics. 
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society 
  and is a recipient of Columbia's Avanessians Diversity Award.

He is the author of two books:

"How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of
Algorithms" (With M. Jones; Norton Press)
https://www.amazon.com/How-Data-Happened-History-Algorithms/dp/1324006730/

"Data Science in Context: Foundations, Challenges, Opportunities"
(with A. Spector, P. Norvig, J. Wing; Cambridge Press)
https://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-Context-Foundations-Opportunities/dp/1009272209/
Cambridge 2024 Prose Award in the category of Computing and Information Sciences