Igor Cizelj, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Brookline, Ma, Us

Greater Boston

- Analyzing insurance claims data by applying mathematical and statistical methods to the systematic observations of natural catastrophe events.- Developing loss distributions for secondary uncertainty and modeling coverage and spatial correlation in catastrophe losses using statistical techniques.- Serving as a primary manager and providing direct supervision to a team of Research Scientist.

Greater Boston Area

- Development and validation of United States wildfire model; performing extensive model evaluations and sensitivity analyses to enhance client understanding and satisfaction; preparing technical model documents.- Overseeing validation and implementation of a suite of AIR's natural catastrophe models (earthquake models for Australia and the Caribbean; United States flood and hurricane models; tropical cyclone model of the Caribbean).- Overseeing validation of a web-based application that enables underwrites to retrieve loss estimates and hazard information in India and the Philippines. - Serving as primary manager and providing direct supervision for a team of Quality Assurance Analysts.- Training and mentoring analysts at AIR on the usage of R for geospatial data analysis and machine learning. - Advising local universities on machine learning applications in industry.

Greater Boston Area

- Development and validation of United States wildfire model, through collaboration with multiple teams including research, software implementation, and documentation groups.- Overseeing validation and implementation of earthquake models for Europe and New Zealand.- Serving as primary manager and providing direct supervision for Quality Assurance Analyst.- Training and mentoring analysts in AIR's international offices on the usage of R for data analysis. - Founder and ongoing leader of a monthly QA knowledge transfer colloquium series. - Organizing and hosting 2018 company-wide technical summit, as well as participating in other annual company meeting committees.- Advising local universities on industrial problems in applied mathematics.

Greater Boston Area

- Validation of stochastic catastrophe modeling software, with particular focus on earthquake and tsunami models in the United States and Europe.- Development of advanced statistical and geospatial test plans (in R, SQL, and ArcGIS) to validate model inputs and outputs.- Analysis of model representation of physical processes and assessment of sensitivity to assumptions inherent in the model development and in input data.- Collaboration in an Agile environment with multiple teams, including coordination with software development/research groups to present findings and to resolve defects with a focus on product quality.- Training and educating new employees on the development and validation of catastrophe models, as well as on the software development life cycle. - Mentoring other analysts on the usage of R for data visualization, mapping, and reproducible research.- Advising local universities on developing a catastrophe modeling oriented curriculum.

Boston

- Design of biologically-inspired flight control algorithms that enable UAVs to navigate more efficiently in cluttered environments. - Analysis and development of control strategies for systems operating in unpredictable environments.- Instructor for EK 131/132: Introduction to Robotics.

Boston

- Instructor for EK 127: Introduction to Engineering Computation.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Systems Engineering

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering