--- description: Christopher T. Franck is an associate professor of statistics at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from North Carolina State University in 2010. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Christopher Franck ## Christopher Franck Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close [Christopher T. Franck](https://chris-franck.com/) is an associate professor of statistics at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from North Carolina State University in 2010. ## Christopher Franck Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Feb 7, 2020 ### [Our Oscars Algorithm Predicted the Best Picture Winner. Tell Us Your Guesses, Too](https://time.com/5779417/oscars-best-picture-prediction/) [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Feb 21, 2019 ### [We Taught a Computer to Guess the Best Picture at the 2019 Oscars](https://time.com/5533849/oscars-academy-awards-prediction-best-picture/) Our algorithm revealed three key factors that best predict each year's Best Picture winner [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/christopher-t-franck/","name":"Christopher Franck"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/christopher-t-franck/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/christopher-t-franck/"},"name":"Christopher Franck","jobTitle":null,"description":"Christopher T. Franck is an associate professor of statistics at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from North Carolina State University in 2010.","url":"https://time.com/author/christopher-t-franck/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```