Farid Khosravikia

Farid Khosravikia is a Corporate Vice President and Lead Data Scientist at New York Life Insurance Company, focusing on modernizing Life Underwriting through statistics and machine learning. Prior to this role, Khosravikia served as a Research Scientist 2 at Verisk, where quantitative risk models for natural disasters were developed to aid in insurance decision-making, and as a Graduate Research Assistant and Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin, contributing to the development of the ShakeRisk software for risk assessment in civil infrastructure. Educational credentials include a PhD in Engineering with a minor in Statistics and Data Science, a Master's degree in Systems Engineering, and an MSc in Earthquake Engineering, alongside a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering. Khosravikia has a background in mentoring students and teaching reliability and probabilistic modeling.