Christopher Risi Email & Phone Number

Kitchener, ON, CA

California, United States

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Leading the Blood Glucose Control AI Design Team: https://github.com/RobotPsychologist/bg_control

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Sessional Lecturer for CS 335 - Computational Methods in Business and FinanceAn introduction to numerical methods for business and finance. Floating-point arithmetic, interpolation. Methods for portfolio optimization.
• Writing lectures, assignments, midterms, exams
• Student evaluation
• Teaching via in-person lectures, discussion forums, and office hours.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• PyData 2024 speaker
• IJCAI 2024 volunteer
• AAMAS 2024 reviewerCoursework
• Comprehensive-1 GPA: 91%
• Reinforcement Learning
• InfoVis for AI Explainability

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Working in a cross-functional engineering team collaborating with product development, professional services, sales, data scientists, and customers to facilitate the creation, validation, and innovation around the.
• Leveraging my knowledge of insurance data to help define and validate various usecases across analytics development efforts
• Automating data acquisition from various open data sources using web scrapers built with Python
• Partnering with product development to automate the scalable delivery of high-quality data transformations, variables, and data sets for use in advanced analytics
• Working closely with data scientists and solution architects on identifying data innovations to support use cases for addressing business challenges and requirementswith analytics
• Assisting customer delivery teams in gathering and refinement of client requirements and in creating modeling data sets

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

• The mission of the P&C Business Intelligence department was to provide actionable insurance information and predictive insight with accuracy and integrity to enable robust, proactive decision-making. The role.
• Analyzed and provided insights into various data sources
• Extracted data as required for project analysis or analysis of the book of business using BI tools and programming languages (MicroStrategy, SQL, Python, R)
• Provided data validation and data reconciliation for various data extractions used throughout the organization
• Constructed, tested, reconciled and documented BI solutions
• Automated and created efficiencies within the BI department

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

• This role was responsible for supporting corporate, pricing, or research and development initiatives within Actuarial Services for The Co-operators General Insurance Company.
• Supported Actuarial work including rate change/implementation projects, reserve analysis and reporting, DCAT analysis, and other Actuarial projects/support work
• Supported Actuarial Models used for corporate, pricing or research and development initiatives
• Developed and maintained knowledge of data sources, as well as reconciling data to sources outside of Actuarial Services
• Developed understanding of P&C insurance products, the marketplace, and the insurance environment
• Provided reports necessary to complete Actuarial work using various databases and SAS

Toronto, Canada Area

As a Sales & Management Reporting Analyst I currently manage multiple ongoing projects while carrying out day to day tasks as they are required. Below is an outline of my current responsibilities and achievements at Qtrade.Developed, automated, and maintained the entire sales reporting framework for Qtrade's mutual fund OceanRock Investments using a.

Toronto, Canada Area

Data Mining, Application Development, Report Generation

Toronto, Canada Area

• Risk assessment and modeling of failure rates for critical Hydro One power equipment assets to mitigate risk of power loss.
• Presented research findings to the Canadian Electricity Association’s Consultative Committee on Outage Statistics.
• Developed custom Excel functions in VBA and produced metrics for the Performance Management’s corporate reports.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Analyzed failure and oil spill rates of transformers to prioritization spill containment on the most vulnerable transformers.
• Analyzed PCB concentration data in electrical equipment to determine which equipment had the greatest likelihood of having high PBC concentrations.
• Used a multitude of Excel functions, pivot tables, and VBA to aggregate data for investment decisions.