George Ng, ’03 Economics

Job title: 
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, GGWP
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George Ng is co-founder and chief technology officer of GGWP, which aims to democratize positive play in video games. Previously, he co-founded Cyence, a cyber risk assessment platform that combined internet-scale data collection, machine learning, and financial modeling to assess technology driven risks. Cyence was acquired by Guidewire Software, where he served as chief data officer. Prior to his entrepreneurial work, Dr. Ng was the chief data scientist at Cray Supercomputer and a research scientist at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Dr. Ng has taught machine learning at UC Berkeley, game theory at American University, and economics at UC Irvine.