About

Dr. Schneider’s research enables organizations to create useful data while protecting consumer data privacy. He creates flexible, but careful statistical methodologies that preserve the patterns required for profitable business decisions. Outside of privacy, he focuses on forecasting revenue and sales using new data. By translating the 5% of usable theory to practice, Dr. Schneider served as a scientific lead for the largest FinTech, pharma, insurance, and retail companies. He has been used for pre-IPO validation of data science and forecasting models in FinTech. He also specialized in improving analytics and anonymization frameworks at numerous Fortune 500 companies. His research has been published in the Harvard Business Review, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Marketing Science, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Consumer Psychology, International Journal of Forecasting, and Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality. Dr. Schneider also teaches Data Privacy Strategy to corporate executives through eCornell.
Dr. Schneider holds a PhD in Statistics and prior to Drexel, he was an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Northwestern University and a Visiting Scholar at the Samuel C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He was also the Director of Research at Fort Rock Asset Management LLC, a fund of hedge funds based in Portland, Oregon. He holds a PhD and MS in Statistics from Cornell University, a MS in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BS in Quantitative Economics from the United States Naval Academy. Before finishing his PhD, he was employed at the RAND Corporation from 2008 to 2013 and served in the U.S. Navy as an Officer of the Deck and Surface Warfare Officer on the USS Boxer from 2003 to 2005.

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Organizational Affiliations

Decision Sciences (and Management Information Systems), Bennett S. LeBow College of Business, Drexel University

Past Affiliations

Northwestern University (United States, Evanston) - NU

Education

United States Naval Academy (United States, Annapolis) - USNA
BS
Carnegie Mellon University (United States, Pittsburgh) - CMU
MS
Cornell University (United States, Ithaca) - CU
PhD