The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science presents the Fall 2026 Data Science Bootcamps, sponsored by Aegon Transamerica. Each week our distinguished presenters will present on topics including data analytics programming, business communication, and observational data analysis.

This week's Data Science Bootcamp presentation:

Dr. Jin Meng, Senior Data Scientist, Zurich North America

"Data Science Application in Insurance on Unstructured Textual Data"

In the second lecture, we will explore more cutting-edge techniques in natural language processing (NLP) using large language models (LLMs). The focus will be on building a chatbot solution, as a data science proof-of-concept solution utilizing a commonly used LLM and a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) framework to provide accurate answers to user questions based on external domain knowledge documents provided to the LLM. The goal of this lecture is to expose students to data science technique stack used in developing end-to-end proof-of-concept or prototype solutions based on cutting edge techniques.