Benjamin S. Skrainka has spent his career using statistical tools and software engineering to answer challenging scientific questions as well as teaching others how to do so. Mr. Skrainka has worked on a wide range of problems -- in both academia and industry -- including quantum cosmology, bioinformatics, computational economics, and predictive analytics. His thesis was one of the largest simulations ever run in Economics. He holds an AB in Physics from Princeton and an MSc, MPhil, and PhD in Economics from University College London.