Cassie Kozyrkov

Cassie Kozyrkov is a South African data scientist and statistician. She worked at Google in Developer Relations team and with Decision Intelligence.

Early life and education
Kozyrkov grew up in South Africa and moved to the US in her teens. 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. 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. After graduation, Kozyrkov worked as a researcher assistant at the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, then enrolled in, but did not complete, graduate studies at Duke University in psychology and cognitive neuroscience with a focus on neuroeconomics. Her research involved the neural processing of value and economic preferences.

Career
Kozyrkov joined Google as a statistician in the Research and Machine Intelligence division in 2014. She originally worked for Google in Mountain View, before moving to New York City a few months later. After two years, she joined the Office of the CTO at Google in 2016 and later to Developer Relation Team in 2017. Her area of focus at Google is on applied AI and data science process architecture. Kozyrkov is also a technology evangelist and has been called a data science thought leader. She has been a keynote speaker at large conferences, including Web Summit, the world's largest technology event. Her writing has been featured on Harvard Business Review and Forbes.