Cas Milner

Cas Milner is an advanced analytics strategy consultant, focused on AI products. And he is a “quant”, having launched two hedge funds, managed several equity portfolios, and was Chief Data Scientist of a start-up matching investors to appropriate investments, using behavioral psychology and natural language processing. Because of his work in investments, he has a special affinity for fintech start-ups. His first career was in physics, and he earned his PhD in experimental particle physics at The University of Texas at Austin, where the title of his dissertation was hard to pronounce. He planned and built numerous experiments at the Superconducting Super Collider, Fermilab, Brookhaven Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory – a process with many features paralleling the creation of business start-ups. Cas’ role in most experiments was in project management, designing custom data-collection electronics, designing and building particle detectors, performing simulations and data analysis, and writing scientific journal articles. His most recent contribution was devising a means to non-invasively measure the location of the melted fuel in the damaged Fukushima Daiichi reactors, using cosmic ray muons -- he's (briefly!) been inside the damaged reactor buildings. He is an adjunct Professor of Physics at SMU, where he has taught courses on quantum mechanics, nuclear policy, "writing for science", and the history of the Manhattan Project.