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In case useful, a short bio, with newlines for easy editing:
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.
books:
"How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of
Algorithms"
with Matthew L. Jones
(Norton Press; March 21, 2023)
https://www.amazon.com/How-Data-Happened-History-Algorithms/dp/1324006730/
and
"Data Science in Context: Foundations, Challenges, Opportunities"
with Alfred Spector, Peter Norvig, and Jeanette Wing
(Cambridge Press; Dec 31, 2022)
https://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-Context-Foundations-Opportunities/dp/1009272209/