ALL MODELS ARE WRONG, BUT SOME ARE USEFUL

- GEORGE E.P. BOX

Hello, my name is Kristof Pusztai! I am currently a Senior Engineer on the Analytics & Insights Data Science team at Verizon in New York City. I have experience in developing and deploying state of the art machine learning and statistical methods for a wide variety of interesting problems, from time-series prediction to reinforcement learning. My current research interests lie in merging modern machine learning methods with Bayesian approaches.

Professional Experience:

Verizon 

January 2023 - Present

Senior Engineer - Data Science

Spotify 

June 2022 - September 2022

Data Scientist Intern

Columbia University Statistics Department 

September 2021 - December 2022

Research Assistant

UC Berkeley Economics Department

January 2020 - August 2020

Research Assistant


Education:

Columbia University

2021 - 2022M.A., Statistics

University of California, Berkeley

2017 - 2021B.A., Economics, Data Science

Certifications:

Google Cloud - Professional Machine Learning Engineer

Oct 2023 - Oct 2025

If you'd like to discuss some of experiences or simply talk about interesting problems or want to get in touch for any reason feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or fill out this contact form below! Be sure to leave your email so I can respond back as soon as I can.