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 interests lie at the interface of machine learning and operations research, with a particular emphasis on developing trustworthy learning methods for decision-making problems. Hong’s research has been recognized by several awards, including paper awards at Neural Information Processing Systems, International Conference on Machine Learning, INFORMS Applied Probability Society, and Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 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 Responsible AI team.