Formal Bio

Hongseok Namkoong is an Assistant Professor in the Decision, Risk, and Operations division at Columbia Business School and a member of the Columbia Data Science Institute. His research builds trustworthy AI systems for real-world decision-making problems. As an interdisciplinary researcher, he draws upon tools from machine learning and operations research. Hong’s research has been recognized at leading AI and OR research outlets, including paper awards at NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, and INFORMS Applied Probability Society. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and worked as a research scientist at Facebook Core Data Science before joining Columbia. Outside of academia, he serves as a LinkedIn Scholar at LinkedIn’s Core AI team.