Elzbieta Polak

I am a mathematician and data scientist interested in the intersection of mathematical modeling, statistics, and machine learning.

I received my PhD in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin, where my research focused on the geometry of optimization and its connections to machine learning and computational mathematics.

I currently work as a data scientist at Travelers, applying statistical modeling and machine learning to real-world problems in property and casualty insurance.

Across both research and practice, I am interested in understanding how mathematical structure shapes models, algorithms, and the data-driven problems they are used to solve.