Neil Benedict

Neil's background is in leadership, technology, risk and finance. In addition to leading Data Science for the Army Enterprise Marketing Office, Neil has provided data science consulting to clients including a top-20 research health system in the United States. Neil has designed distributed computing architectures for a variety of use-cases and industries including zero-knowledge protocols and various encryption methodologies. Neil also has government operational experience serving for 5 years in the United States Marine Corps as an airframes mechanic on the FA-18D structural, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems. Neil deployed twice to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005 and 2006. Neil holds an MS in analytics from the University of Chicago. His capstone paper on Mean-variance optimization was cited Financial Analytics in R: Building a Laptop Laboratory for Data Science, published in 2016.