Jonathan Crow

About Jonathan Crow

I’m a 25-year-old veteran of the field of statistics, data science, and AI. I worked in a variety of industries, from manufacturing to the medical field, followed by retail and more recently the video game industry. For the past 11 years, I\'ve been leading an international team of data scientists, and ML engineers who analyze large datasets and develop algorithms for the purpose of improving and/or automating the decision-making process in both game development, publishing, finance, and customer service at Wargaming.net.Specialties: Applied Statistical Methods, Data Mining, Big Data, Survey design, Ideation, Teaching, Hadoop, SAS, R, Python, MLOps.

Experience

1. Head of Ai Technologies

   Wargaming

   Oct 2024 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Define the overall AI strategy for the organization, identifying and prioritizing areas where AI can drive innovation, efficiency, and player engagement.• Collaborate with executive leadership, product teams, and technical departments to align AI initiatives with the company’s long-term vision for gaming experiences and business growth.• Oversee the strategic roadmap for AI, balancing exploratory research with practical, impactful implementations.• Guide the development and deployment of AI-driven features across multiple areas, including NPC behavior, game balancing, procedural content generation, and personalization.• Ensure scalable, high-performance AI infrastructures, architectures, and pipelines that support real-time gaming applications and analytics.• Establish best practices for MLOps, continuous integration and deployment, and model lifecycle management to optimize production AI systems. • Lead a multidisciplinary team of AI researchers, machine learning engineers, and data scientists, fostering a collaborative environment that encourages innovation.• Mentor direct reports and build a culture of continuous learning, ensuring the team remains at the forefront of AI advancements in gaming.• Drive AI research in areas critical to gaming, including machine learning, NLP, reinforcement learning, and generative AI.• Establish guidelines for ethical AI development, ensuring transparency, fairness, and data privacy across AI implementations.• Ensure proper usage of AI tools and technologies within established company policies and guidelines.• Lead initiatives to address bias, ensure inclusive design, and implement safeguards for ethical AI use in gameplay and player interactions.• Promote Wargaming AI initiatives at industry conferences, events, and within AI communities.• Establish and maintain relationships with vendors in AI space. Assist in vendor onboarding and negotiations.

Education

• Bowling Green State University

  Masters, Applied Statistics

  2003 — 2005

Skills

• Qualitative Research
• Research
• Teaching
• Tableau
• Analysis
• Customer Insight
• Programming Languages
• Data Mining
• Quantitative Research
• Marketing Research
• Market Research
• Analytical Skills
• Survey Design
• Leadership
• Spss
• Data Analysis
• Microstrategy
• Segmentation
• Project Management
• Analytics
• Statistics
• Consumer Behaviour