Dr. Zach Kurtz is an SEI alumni employee.

Dr. Zach Kurtz is a data scientist with experience on projects in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, public transit, psychology, marketing analytics, ecology, medicine, human rights, and international capital flows. Kurtz’s dissertation built on capture-recapture theory to introduce a new method for estimating the sizes of partially observed populations. At the SEI, Kurtz has developed new evaluation methodologies for open-ended cyber warning competitions, built text-based classifiers, and designed cyber incident data visualization tools.