Overview

Gender

male

Roy has worked at the intersection of business strategy and technology for almost 40 years. Former CTO at Capital One and at Reuters and a management consultant at McKinsey and Co, in recent years he designed and guided the development of the Center for Data Science at NYU. The Center became a focal point for the university-wide initiatives in data science and statistics. The Center’s flagship MS in Data Science (MSDS) program received ~1300 applications for admission in fall 2016 and matriculated 232 students in total. Every single graduate became employed in data science or enrolled in a PhD program. He is also a founder of Advanced Valuation Analytics Corporation, where he develops real estate valuation and mortgage default prediction models. Roy has a PhD in machine learning from NYU with application to real estate, a MBA from Harvard and a BA in Math from Vanderbilt University.