Fueling innovative software
July 15-18, 2019
Portland, OR
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Alyssa Columbus

Alyssa Columbus
Data Scientist, Pacific Life

Website | @alycolumbus

Alyssa Columbus is a data scientist at Pacific Life and member of the spring 2018 class of NASA Datanauts. Previously, she was a computational statistics and machine learning researcher at the Athena Breast Health Network and has built robust predictive models and applications for a diverse set of industries spanning retail and biologics. Alyssa is a strong proponent of reproducible methods, open source technologies, and diversity in tech. In her free time, she leads R-Ladies Irvine and Girl Scout STEM workshops.

Sessions

A data odyssey: Open source AI’s transformation of the insurance industry
Alyssa Columbus (Pacific Life)
Data has always been at the heart of the insurance industry, but the amount and speed of data generated daily is causing a massive disruption. Alyssa Columbus takes you through the future evolution and scaling of the insurance industry landscape with the innovations of open source machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow, H2O, and scikit-learn.