Chris Wiggins — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times since 2014.
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University since 2001.
Co-founder of hackNY, a nonprofit organizing student hackathons and internships since 2010.
Co-author of "How Data Happened" (2023) and "Data Science in Context" (2022).
Senior Advisor at Bowery Capital since 2013.
Earned a PhD in theoretical physics from Princeton University in 1998.
Introduced the "Data: Past, Present, Future" course at Columbia University in 2017.

Biography

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 Department of Systems Biology, the executive committee of the Data Science Institute, and the Institute's education and entrepreneurship committees. He is also an affiliate of Columbia's Department of Statistics and a founding member of Columbia's Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (C2B2).