Christopher Burger - Principal Consultant

Pelican Quantitative is led by Christopher Burger an active university professor and Pelican Quantitative's principal consultant.

He has a broad background spanning applied mathematics, statistics, and systems engineering and focuses on data analysis and the practical application of predictive models.

Areas of Expertise

Work has been successfully executed across a wide range of operational and research environments, including:

• Explainable AI (XAI) & Validation: Developing methodologies to ensure machine learning models are transparent, calibrated, and empirically sound.
• Adversarial Machine Learning & Security: Evaluating system resilience, including physical-domain adversarial attacks (e.g., hardware-in-the-loop IR sensor environments) and malware time-series analysis.
• Natural Language Processing (NLP): Extracting quantitative metrics from unstructured text data.
• Systems Evaluation: Applying quality control and statistical metrics to broad domains, including instructional technologies, educational assessment systems, and secure financial transaction processing environments.