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Cassie Kozyrkov
Cassie Kozyrkov is a South African data scientist and statistician. She served as Chief Decision Scientist at Google and founded Decision Intelligence.[1][2][3] Early life and educationKozyrkov grew up in South Africa and moved to the US in her teens.[2][4] As a child, Kozyrkov became interested in data when she discovered spreadsheet software and later became interested in the relationship between information and decision-making.[5] She began her studies in economics and mathematical statistics at Nelson Mandela University at the age of fifteen, and transferred to the University of Chicago to complete her undergraduate degree.[citation needed] After graduation, Kozyrkov worked as a research assistant at the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, then enrolled in graduate studies at Duke University in psychology and cognitive neuroscience with a focus on neuroeconomics.[6] Her research involved the neural processing of value and economic preferences.[citation needed] Career.jpg) Kozyrkov joined Google as a statistician in the Research and Machine Intelligence division in 2014.[5] She originally worked for Google in Mountain View, before moving to New York City a few months later.[5] After two years, she joined the Office of the CTO at Google in 2016.[citation needed] Her area of focus at Google is on applied AI and data science process architecture.[7][better source needed] .jpg) Kozyrkov is also a technology evangelist and has been called a data science thought leader.[8] She has been a keynote speaker at large conferences [1], including Web Summit,[citation needed] the world's largest technology event.[9][10] Her writing has been featured on Harvard Business Review[11][12] and Forbes.[13] References
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