Hosein Alizadeh

Lead Data Scientist VicSuper

Hosein is a PhD qualified Lead Data Scientist who established data science team at VicSuper in 2016 and since then he helped the fund to grow by making more data driven decisions.

He has 8+ years of hands-on experience in development of commercial solutions in various industries including superannuation, telecommunication, banking, and healthcare. He has in-depth technical knowledge of data science including predictive algorithms, cluster analysis, ensemble techniques, social network analysis, text mining, and optimisation algorithms. He has also worked on various databases including customer transaction, CRM, survey, text, and social media.

Hosein taught data science in university graduate programs, conducted multiple workshops, and provided mentoring to other data scientists. He was awarded as “Elite Researcher” for his significant research achievements including 40+ papers published in outstanding data science journals and conferences since 2008. His fully commercialised innovation in segmentation received the highly commended prize of “Technology and Innovation Award” at AMSRS 2016.