Elliot C. (IN A NUTSHELL)

Elliot is a sophomore at Harvard College studying Statistics. Originally from San Francisco, CA, Elliot is a passionate about sports analytics, strategy, and business. At Harvard, he is on the board of the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective, where he publishes articles on sports analytics and manages a team of writers. Elliot has interned at Big League Advance, a sports company with player investment and sports betting arms. There, he created models to bet on sports including football and baseball; his models are in use by the company today. He also teaches sports analytics with the Harvard Summit for Young Leaders in China, where he is a seminar leader. Elliot is excited to bring his deep experience in the emerging field of sports analytics to Curious Cardinals students around the world. Beyond sports, Elliot is a Case Team Leader for the Harvard College Consulting Group, where he oversees a team of six junior analysts in consulting for F500 and former decacorns on 5-figure deals. His experience there ranges from evaluating enterprise sales platform market fit to developing an anonymized data licensing strategy. In high school, Elliot was involved in public forum debate, FIRST robotics challenge, and student council. He also published first-author research with the Durmus Lab at Stanford and led his school’s Community Service Learning Club. Elliot has been involved in education since early high school. He has experience teaching CS, chemistry, and math in group and individual settings. He developed LEGO robotics curriculum for the organization Peninsula Bridge and led the creation of a hands-on, robotics-based math class. Elliot is a strong proponent of experiential learning and emphasizes explorative education and learning from failure. Students should expect to learn by building analytical models in a hands-on fashion.