Cristián Bravo Email & Phone Number

London, On, Ca

London, Ontario, Canada

Tenured Full Professor at the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, and NSERC Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Banking and Insurance Analytics. I focus on the development and application of data science methodologies in the context of credit risk analytics, in areas such as deep learning, text analytics, image processing, and social network analysis.

London, On, Canada

Associate Professor at the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, and NSERC Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Banking and Insurance Analytics. I focus on the development and application of data science methodologies in the context of credit risk analytics, in areas such as deep learning, text analytics, image processing, and social network analysis.

Serving at the editorial board of ASOC, ranked in the first quartile by impact factor (IF: 3.541) in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Science - Interdisciplinary Applications.

Reino Unido

Serving at the editorial board of the new Journal of Business Analytics of the UK's OR Society.

London, Reino Unido

Southampton, United Kingdom

Member of the Department of Decision Analytics and Risk (DDAR) at the Southampton Business School. Served as programme leader of the MSc in Business Analytics and Finance, the largest DDAR programme.

Southampton, United Kingdom

Curicó, Chile

Instructor professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, conducting high-level research in business analytics, SME credit risk, and data mining.

Leuven, Belgium

Postdoctoral fellowship conducting research in Credit Scoring, Consumer Fraud and Business Analytics.

Santiago, Chile

Main accomplishments:- Conduct high-level research in credit scoring and consumer credit risk.- Design the long and short-term research agenda of the center, coordinating expected output and goals for each researcher.- Support the research agenda of the professors at the center, coordinating the students, assistants, and facilitating access to the technological resources available.

Developed several models for credit risk measurement, fraud detection, and bankruptcy prediction. Clients included the Economics Ministry, INDAP, Banco del Desarrollo Microempresas, and PROSE-CHILE.

Courses taught:- Credit scoring module in Finance diploma to executives.- Case Studies in Operations Research, in the Msc. in Operations Research (2009-2010).- Operations Management II to Industrial Engineering undergraduate students (2011)- Industrial Engineering Workshop II to Industrial Engineering undergraduate students (2011)- Thesis Prep for final year undergraduate students.

Santiago, Chile

Consultant in Credit Scoring/Behavioral Scoring for several banks in the country.

Curicó, Chile

Invited Professor teaching Data Mining courses (Data Mining I & II and Business Intelligence) for MSc. in Operations Management.

Santiago, Chile

Main Accomplishments:- Designed the marketing strategies of the credit products of the company.- Managed and controlled the marketing campaigns of credit products and sales force incentives campaigns.- Built prediction models for propensity, customer lifetime value, among others.- Served as the interim head of BI before leaving for my PhD.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Engineering Systems

Doctoral Topic: Data Mining and Game Theory Models for Consumer Credit Risk. Examiners: Prof. Richard Weber (U. de Chile, Advisor), Prof..

Master Of Science (Msc), Operations Research

Industrial Engineer