Cassie Kozyrkov is the Chief Decision Scientist at Google. In addition, she is a frequent contributor toHacker Noon. Kozyrkov is based in New York City. ^[1]

Kozyrkov joined Google in 2014 performing a number of roles including statistician, machine learning expert, mentor, data scientist, evangelist, decision scientist, and consultant. In 2017, she became the Technical Director and Chief Data Scientist of the CTO where she served as a thought leader for data science in Google Cloud. Kozyrkov became the Chief Decision Scientist where she works with Google's efforts in decision intelligence.

Kozyrkov published her first article for Hacker Noon on May 24th, 2018.

In her writings, she explores the topics of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Some of Kozyrkov most popular articles include "The simplest explanation of machine learning you'll ever read", "Why businesses fail at machine learning", "Machine learning - Is the emperor wearing clothes", and "9 Things You Should Know About TensorFlow."

Kozyrkov studied economics and mathematical statistics at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University where she graduated in 2006.

She earned a BA in economics from the University of Chicago in 2008, a PhD ABD in psychology and neuroscience from Duke University, and a Master's degree in mathematical statistics from North Carolina State University in 2014.

Kozyrkov is originally fromPort Elizabeth,South Africa.

She resides inNew York City.