Wiggins Tops the Lists

Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University and the Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times, was recently named as one of

"AI 100 2023: The top people in artificial intelligence"

"The top 7 media people in AI"

"The Top 10 Data Science Influencers in the UK 2023"

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:
"How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms" with Matthew L. Jones
and
"Data Science in Context: Foundations, Challenges, Opportunities" with Alfred Spector, Peter Norvig, and Jeanette Wing