Scott Stransky

Scott Stransky is Assistant Vice President and Principal Scientist in AIR's Research and Modelling group. He leads the Statistics and Applied Mathematics group, which is responsible for cyber risk modelling, supply chain modelling, life and health modelling, and stochastic catalog generation for various wind perils. He managed the research and development of AIR’s most recent tropical cyclone models for the Caribbean and Hawaii, and severe thunderstorm models for the US and Canada.

He has participated in damage surveys for severe thunderstorms, tropical cyclones, and wildfires. Scott earned a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Atmospheric Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His Master’s research involved numerical modelling of rotating fluids in the laboratory setting and extrapolating the results to real-world weather models. He has been at AIR since 2007.