Media and trade coverage of Jeff Heaton and his work. For peer-reviewed research, see Google Scholar. Members of the media: interview and comment requests are very welcome; please see the contact page.
Press and Interviews
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Messenger: Chesterfield man uses AI skills for medical app to help his wife and others, Tony Messenger’s column on Dynaface (August 2026)
- St. Louis Magazine: How a St. Louis insurance exec used AI to help his wife’s facial paralysis (July 2026)
- Chai Time Data Science: Jeff Heaton: Creating AI Content, Kaggle and Teaching, podcast interview with Sanyam Bhutani (December 2020)
- Machine Learning Times: Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Jeff Heaton at Reinsurance Group of America (March 2019)
- St. Louis Business Journal: RGA scientist to write second AI volume, beats Kickstarter goal, Jacob Kirn on the Kickstarter for Artificial Intelligence for Humans, Volume 2: Nature Inspired Algorithms (February 2014)
- St. Louis Business Journal: RGA scientist’s Kickstarter project hits 460 percent of goal, Jacob Kirn on crowdfunding Artificial Intelligence for Humans, Volume 1 (July 2013)
Quoted In
Articles where I was asked to comment or contribute expertise, rather than being the subject:
- St. Louis Magazine: LaunchCode creates a new AI-powered lift for St. Louis workers: Hire Human, on the AI curriculum I helped LaunchCode design (February 2026)
From RGA
I serve as Vice President, AI Innovation at Reinsurance Group of America (RGA); in the interest of full disclosure, the following feature was produced by RGA.
- Finding Her Smile: AI expertise sparks a medical breakthrough, the story behind Dynaface
Trade Articles by Jeff
Articles I have written for Digital Insurance:
- What does DeepSeek shake up mean for life insurance? (January 2025)
- GPT-4 upgrade improves results, expands application potential (March 2023)
- ChatGPT: A conversation about underwriting and life insurance, with Dave Rengachary (February 2023)
- Man vs. machine? How automated machine learning will evolve actuaries, with Jaqui Wassenaar