Eugene Pinsky

Associate Professor of the Practice, Computer Science; Coordinator, Software Development

  • Title Associate Professor of the Practice, Computer Science; Coordinator, Software Development
  • Office 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, 3rd Floor, 327
  • Education PhD, Columbia University
    BA, Harvard University

Dr. Eugene Pinsky received his Magna Cum Laude in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1986. He first joined the faculty of Boston University in 1986 and was an assistant professor of computer science in the College of Arts and Sciences until 1993. In 1993-1994, he was a visiting scientist at Laboratory for Information and Decision Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology focusing on efficient computational methods in stochastic models. Since leaving academia, Eugene Pinsky gained extensive industry experience designing computational methods to analyze and monitor market risk at multiple trading and investment firms, including Bright Trading, Letra Group, F-Squared Investments, Harvard Management Company and Trading CrossConnects. He has also applied his expertise in data mining, predictive analytics, and machine learning to computational advertising at Tremor Video. His research interests are the design and analysis of computationally simple and explainable prediction and classification machine learning methods. He has extensive experience in course and professional curriculum development. Since joining Metropolitan College in 2018, Eugene Pinsky has developed a number of core courses and has led multiple student projects in data science and machine learning. He published extensively in many areas including financial modeling, algorithmic trading, portfolio construction, mean absolute deviations, multi-dimensional statistical data analysis of large time-series data, large language models in healthcare and sustainability, clustering and prediction. His hobbies include book collecting with a focus on medieval mathematics and history of science.

Office Hours: 12:00 PM-2:00 PM, on Fridays

What advice do you have for new students?

Data science and machine learning require an understanding of many interdisciplinary concepts, based on classical results from mathematics and statistics. I would encourage students to study these fundamental sciences and look for solutions that are simple and amenable to intuitive interpretations. As data scientists, you should have an open mind. Negative results are just as important as positive results.”

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