Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, GB

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

• Lead a team of 20+ data scientists, analytics consultants, and risk strategists across Cambridge, London, and Singapore.
• Responsible for the solution design and deployment of complex machine and deep learning systems across our EMEA and APAC portfolios, ranging from multi-national financial institutions to startup fintechs.
• Drive EMEA and APAC Analytics strategy to reinforce global standards, nurture talent, innovate on scalable analytics products, and ensure successful outcomes for our customers.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

• Led team of 14 researchers, responsible for ~£1.5M annual student income and research strategy, and increased grant capture 10x during my tenure.
• Published an average of 3 peer-reviewed papers and gave 5 invited talks annually using supervised ML (linear, logistic, and causal modeling), unsupervised ML (factor analysis and IRT modeling), agent-based simulations.
• Authored the 'informationeffects' R package, a complete pipeline for estimating information effects, from IRT scales to propensity scoring and causal modeling.
• Founded the Bloomsbury Quants Forum at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, providing a space for quant academics and practitioners to exchange ideas through regular, lunch-time talks.
• Steering Group Member at the Birkbeck Institute for Data Analytics.

London, United Kingdom

• Mentored junior researchers on academic careers and research design and assisted on grant capture at Britain's longest established independent research institute.
• Won a major, mixed-methods Leverhulme Trust grant on public perceptions of the economics of EU immigration, and presented results to the UK Home Office and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
• Built and maintained a large network of contacts across UK think tanks, including NatCen Social Research, Alan Turing Institute, Demos, British Future, and King’s Policy Institute, among others.

London, United Kingdom

• Pioneered the development and use in production of the first self-resolving prediction markets, offering long-term forecasting and counterfactual analysis.
• Published two, peer-reviewed papers in the Journal of Prediction Markets, the pre-eminent academic outlet for prediction market research and forecasting.

Canterbury, United Kingdom

• Spearheaded research ethics and student recruitment for six research departments (60+ FTE), resulting in the promotion to Deputy Head of School.
• Established the Kent Philosophy in Prison Initiative at HMP Brixton, to raise educational ambitions.

Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark

• Post Doc with the Social Epistemology Research Group, working on topics in the epistemology of liberal democracy.

New Brunswick, NJ

• Post Doc under Alvin Goldman, working across philosophy and empirical psychology on what later became my book Epistemic Paternalism: A Defence (Palgrave 2013).

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Philosophy

Fulbright Fellow, Philosophy