James Guszcza
Chief Data Scientist, Deloitte Consulting

James Guszcza is Deloitte Consulting’s Chief Data Scientist, and a pioneering member of Deloitte’s original Data Science practice.

Jim has applied statistical and machine learning methods to such diverse business problems as healthcare utilization, customer and employee retention, talent management, customer segmentation, insurance pricing and underwriting, credit scoring, child support enforcement, patient safety, claims management, and fraud detection.

He has also spearheaded Deloitte’s use of behavioral nudge tactics to more effectively act on model indications.

A frequent author and conference speaker, Jim designed and teaches hands-on business analytics training seminars for both the Casualty Actuarial Society and the Society of Actuaries.

Jim is a former professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison business school, and has a PhD in the Philosophy of Science from The University of Chicago. He is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, and serves on its board of directors.
Sessions

4:50pm–5:30pm Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Why AI needs human-centered design

Location: Imperial B

James Guszcza (Deloitte Consulting)

This talk will discuss principles of human-computer collaboration, organize them into a framework, and give several real-life examples in which human-computer cognitive collaboration has been crucial to the economic success of a project.