Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University.

[1] In 2010 he co-founded hackNY, a nonprofit organization focused on connecting students with startups in New York City.

[2] Since 2014, he has been the Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times.

[3][4] In 2017, Chris Wiggins, along with Matthew L. Jones, introduced a new course to Columbia called "Data: Past, Present, Future".

[6] In 2007, he received the Janette and Armen Avanessians Diversity Award at Columbia University.