Nina Zumel, VP, Data Science Practice, Wallaroo
Nina Zumel has a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and more than 20 years of experience practicing and teaching analytics, machine learning, and Data Science. She was a scientist at SRI, led the design of an early online pricing system for a small Palo Alto startup, and has worked on applications for emergency management training and intelligent search. In her roles as VP of Data Science at Wallaroo and co-founder and principal consultant for Win Vector LLC, she has led or been involved in engagements pertaining to ad-word revenue attribution, customer transaction models, product recommendation systems, and loan risk modeling. She is also heavily involved with Data Science-related training and teaching, including the design of EMC Corporation’s “Data Science and Big Data Analytics” course and bespoke Data Science training courses for a number of large corporations. Dr. Zumel is the co-author of the popular text, “Practical Data Science with R“ (Manning Publications, 2019), now in its second edition.
