Cassie Kozyrkov
Founder of Decision Intelligence and former Chief Decision Scientist at Google
A South African data scientist and statistician who served as Google's Chief Decision Scientist and founded the field of Decision Intelligence.
Biography
Cassie Kozyrkov is a South African data scientist and statistician who served as Chief Decision Scientist at Google and founded Decision Intelligence. She grew up in South Africa and moved to the US in her teens. She began studying economics and mathematical statistics at Nelson Mandela University at age fifteen, then completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago and did graduate studies at Duke University in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, focusing on neuroeconomics.
She joined Google as a statistician in the Research and Machine Intelligence division in 2014 and moved to the Office of the CTO in 2016, where her focus was applied AI and data science process architecture. She is a technology evangelist and data science thought leader whose writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review and Forbes, and she has given keynotes at conferences including Web Summit.
Notable contributions
Served as Google's Chief Decision Scientist
Joined Google as a statistician in 2014 and later served as Chief Decision Scientist, focusing on applied AI and data science process architecture.
Founded Decision Intelligence
Founded Decision Intelligence, a discipline that connects information and decision-making, and became a widely known data science thought leader.