page_title: Cassie Kozyrkov
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Cassie Kozyrkov / Career
caption_attribution_description: 5 November 2019; Cassie Kozyrkov, Chief Decision Scientist, Google, on Auto/Tech &amp; TalkRobot Stage during the opening day of Web Summit 2019 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Photo by Harry Murphy/Web Summit via Sportsfile
context_page_description: Cassie Kozyrkov is a South African data scientist and statistician. She founded the field of Decision Intelligence at Google, where she serves as Chief Decision Scientist.
context_section_description: 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. She was promoted to Chief Data Scientist in the Office of the CTO at Google in 2016 and to Chief Decision Scientist 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. She publishes data science articles on her own blog, and her writing also been featured on Harvard Business Reviewand Forbes.  She was selected by LinkedIn as the #1 Top Voice in Data Science and Analytics for 2019 and appeared on the cover of the Forbes AI data science issue.
caption: Cassie Kozyrkov during the opening day of Web Summit 2019
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