George Sugihara

George Sugihara is a professor of biological oceanography and complex systems at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography where he is the inaugural holder of the McQuown Chair in Natural Science.

His work involves inductive theoretical approaches to understanding nature from observational data. The general approach is different from most theory and involves minimalist inductive theory – Inductive data-driven explorations of nature using minimal assumptions. The aim is to avoid inevitable assumptions of deductive first-principle models and produce an understanding that passes the validation test of out-of-sample prediction. His initial work on fisheries as complex, chaotic systems led to work on financial networks and prediction of chaotic systems. Provided by Wikipedia