Dr. Zhenyu Yan Lead Scientist, FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation), USA

Zhenyu (William) Yan is a Lead Scientist with Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO), where he researches and develops innovative approaches and algorithms for a variety of business applications, from experimental design and prediction to decision models and optimization. He is also responsible for the core predictive algorithms underlying FICO's scorecard technology,... read morewhich serves as the core analytic engine for FICO credit risk scores. Zhenyu received his PhD in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia, USA in 2007 and the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science in 2000 and 2003 from Wuhan University, China. His research interests include data mining, machine learning, multi-objective optimization, risk analysis, and their industrial applications. He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers in related areas.