Florian joined Exiger from Stroz Friedberg, where he was a Manager. In this role, he focused on the evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorist Financing and Sanctions Screening Systems, as well as the application of Data Science to Compliance and Cyber Crime cases. While there, Florian developed a system for harnessing expert judgements in an automated system of fraud detection.

Prior to joining Stroz Friedberg, Florian was a Senior Research Data Analyst at the Educational Testing Service. Florian focused on statistical/NLP research as well as the psychometric assessment and mathematical optimization of the industry’s leading systems for rating written and spoken English, E-rater and Speech Rater. During his time at the Educational Testing Service, Florian co-authored multiple publications on measurement issues in automated scoring, and led the research culminating in the use of a new optimization method for the leading constructed response scoring engine.

Florian is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and is certified in Sanctions Compliance. Florian has earned multiple master’s degrees from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and completed a master’s thesis on methods in Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. He also speaks German with native fluency.