Senior Principal Data Scientist
Nielsen Company
Jennifer Shin is a Senior Principal Data Scientist at The Nielsen Company and the Founder of 8 Path Solutions, a data science, analytics, and technology company. As an experienced data scientist and management consultant, Jennifer has led complex, large scale, and high profile projects for corporate, public, and private clients, including GE Capital, the Carlyle Group, Fortress Investment Group, and Columbia University.
A recognized thought leader, her expertise has been recognized by USA Today, VentureBeat, and Reuters, and in 2015 she was identified by IBM as a Big Data & Analytics Hero. Jennifer also serves on the faculty in the UC Berkeley School of Information, lecturing in statistics and data science. She is also an instructor at Columbia Business School and on the Advisory Board for the M.S. in Data Analytics program at the City University of New York.
Jennifer earned both her undergraduate degree in Economics, Mathematics, and Creative Writing and her graduate degree in Statistics from Columbia University.