Hassan Masum

About

• • Head of Data Insights at Clio. Progress Strategist. Affiliate Researcher at the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation at the University of Waterloo.

  • VP of Data Science and Analytics at Prodigy Education. Grew Data team from 3 to 30+, and grew people from contributor to lead to director. Helped millions of users love learning, and all of Prodigy be data-powered: Game, Education, Parents, Teachers, Marketing, Finance, People Ops, etc. Scaled user understanding and promoted culture of long-term business value from delivering more user value. Levelled up as an executive, coach, technical leader, and cross-functional partner.

  • Worked with Results for Development, Government of Canada, National Research Council, Industry Canada, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, and others. Innovative solutions to planetary problems with Worldchanging and Worldchanging Canada. Collaborative technologies implementation with the Communications Research Center and National Research Council. Ph.D. Carleton University, postdoctoral work at NRC and the University of Fribourg. Other: network engineering, R&D policy, reverse engineering, evolutionary computation, teaching...

• Interests: algorithmic co-operation, collaborative tactics, collective intelligence, complex adaptive systems, constructive news, conversational interviews, creative games, ecological economics, econophysics, ethical finance, foresight, global health, great books, health innovation, high-performance teams, long-horizon strategies, machine learning, peer production, qualitative research, reputation systems, responsible investment, sustainable prosperity, systemic solutions, visions of a better tomorrow...