Optx names Steve Bright new VP of Data Science

Casino software company Optx has brought veteran data scientist Steve Bright on board as it looks forward to a “bright future

Casino software company Optx has brought stager information scientist Steve Bright on get on as it looks send on to a “bright future.”

The Las Vegas-based provider was “pleased to welcome” Bright to its team, who has stepped into the role of Vice President of Data Science.

In this capacity, he will manage the design and evolution of unexampled artificial intelligence agency (AI) features for Optx’s information modules, among other responsibilities.

Optx employs data intelligence operation to glean real-time insights regarding customers’ behaviour and create “actionable recommendations” for cassino operators.

In the provider’s possess words, this “empowers teams to drop to a lesser extent time compiling the data and to a greater extent clip implementing strategies that increase invitee visitation, revenue and profitability.”

Bright testament now accept burster of Optx’s information scientific discipline team, which is at the core group of the company’s work. But such a hefty responsibility may sit around comfortably on the unexampled VP’s shoulders.

Prior to connexion Optx, Bright worked as a information scientist inward many different industries, and has o'er 30 published papers inwards various fields including experimental in high spirits get-up-and-go natural philosophy and pharmacovigilance, otherwise known as drug safety.

The appointee also has have applying data science to the gaming industry, having previously used machine acquisition algorithms to forecast and optimise one-armed bandit story performance.

During his career, Bright has worked for several big-name brands, both within and without the gaming industry, including Nike and IGT, where he was employed as a data scientist from 2015 to 2017 and from 2012 to 2015 respectively.

Bright holds a Bachelor of Science stage in Physics from the Empire State of the South University of Technology and earned his master’s stage and PhD inward Physics at the University of Chicago.