Stephen Coggeshall

Stephen Coggeshall is the retired Chief analytics and science officer at ID Analytics, an identity fraud protection company owned by LifeLock and Symantec. He was the founding CTO of ID Analytics where he built the analytics team and helped design the technical solution approach. Prior to ID Analytics Coggeshall worked for 11 years as a researcher in nuclear fusion at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In addition to IDAnalytics, Dr. Coggeshall also cofounded the analytics consulting companies CASA (acquired by HNC Software/FICO) and Los Alamos Computational Group (acquired by Morgan Stanley). His expertise is in forming and managing teams of data scientists to attack complex business problems using advanced algorithms on big data. He has deep expertise in consumer behavior modeling, optimization, forecasting and financial engineering, and spent the past 15 years focusing on identity fraud dynamics.

Education
Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana
M.A. Music, University of Illinois, Urbana
M.S. Nuclear Engineering, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
B.S. Mathematics/PhysicsSouthern Illinois University at Edwardsville

Instructional Area
Innovation, Technology, and Operations

Courses Taught
MGTA 463R: Fraud Analytics