Siddhartha Dalal

Siddhartha Dalal is a Professor of Professional Practice in Applied Analytics at Columbia University's Faculty of Professional Studies. He is an affiliated member of the Statistics Department and multiple centers including Cybersecurity, Health Analytics, and Financial and Business Analytics. Prior roles include Chief Data Scientist/Senior Vice President at AIG, CTO at the RAND Corporation, and leadership positions at Xerox, Bell Labs, and Bellcore. He has over 125 peer-reviewed publications, patents, and monographs focusing on risk analysis, medical informatics, Bayesian statistics, and software reliability. His work includes pioneering AI applications in insurance analytics through Praedicat, Inc., and notable contributions to software testing methodologies like the AETG system.

Research interests span interdisciplinary domains: leveraging AI for risk assessment, statistical methods in healthcare, and cybersecurity solutions. Awards include IEEE, ASA, and ASQ recognitions for groundbreaking work on the Challenger disaster analysis and software risk management. Dalal advises the Army Science Board on technological advancements and has led initiatives in data-driven decision-making across industries.

• Education: Advanced degrees in statistics and computer science (details not explicitly stated in text).
• Labs/Teams: Affiliated with Columbia Statistics Department and Army Science Board advisory group.
• Future Work: Expanding AI-driven risk frameworks in finance and healthcare, enhancing multi-modal data fusion systems.