Dr. Shidan Murphy oversees the pre-sales and technical delivery of Data Analytics for Altair Engineering in the Asia-Pacific. Dr. Murphy brings to Altair a rich and varied background with significant, varied experience in data science. Beginning his career as a Research Scientist with the Canada Government, Dr. Murphy developed numerical methods to predict how climate change, shipping patterns and shoreline modifications affect fish communities in the Great Lakes of North America and in the Canadian Arctic. Today, Dr. Murphy works towards solving the analytical issues facing financial institutions, retailors, utilities, insurance and consumer-packaged good companies across Asia, India and Australia. Dr. Murphy is an award-winning scientist, author of several papers published in international journals and written software to teach statistical computing in R. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto.