Scott Strong Email and Phone Number

Scott Strong is currently the Head Data Scientist and Co-Founder of Strong Concepts Consulting (SCC) where he helps tech companies (and other organizations) get the most out of their data. At SCC, Mr. Strong builds data driven products, insights, and companies by leveraging the strengths of both human and machine.Prior to his work at SCC, Scott was the CEO and Founder of Previsio, a company focused on personalized lifestyle planning. At Previsio, he helped enable people to live the lifestyle they want while also planning for the future by providing personalized lifestyle plans.In his work before Previsio, Mr. Strong was the Director of Research at CloudZero, providing companies with actionable operational insights based on their cloud spend. Before CloudZero, Scott worked as a machine learning researcher and data scientist at Pindrop, who provides enterprise solutions to help prevent fraud over the phone. At Pindrop, his work focused on the research and development of new ways of catching phone-based fraud, resulting in two patents. Prior to Pindrop, Mr. Strong worked as a quantitative analyst and software developer for Lucena Research. There he performed R&D of machine learning techniques to predict financial market movement and created custom investment strategies for hedge funds and registered investment advisers.Scott is a graduate of Iowa State University's Aerospace Engineering program (2010), where he engaged in the research and design of guidance algorithms to prevent mid-air collisions of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Following ISU, he moved to Atlanta to further his education at Georgia Tech with an MS in Aerospace Engineering (2011) and an MBA (2012). During his time at GT, Scott worked on research to design hypersonic ballistic missiles as well as techniques to model and assess the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System. The focus of his masters work was in the optimization of neural networks architectures for use in aerospace related applications.With his work in multiple industries, Scott has enjoyed dissecting the elements of solving a problem, discovering methods that generalize across different industries and problem types. As an entrepreneur, he is always looking to learn from others and provide his insights when others can benefit from his experiences.