Gabriela de Queiroz
Gabriela de Queiroz is a chief data scientist at IBM, the founder of the global R-Ladies and AI Inclusive organizations. She was raised in Brazil and received her bachelor's degree in statistics from Rio de Janeiro State University. She has a master’s in epidemiology at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and another one in statistics at California State University, East Bay. Work and education. de Queiroz moved to the United States in 2012 to begin her master's degree in statistics at California State University, East Bay. Interested in creating an inclusive space for women learning  the programming language R, she began a Meetup group in the San Francisco Bay area. Since then, the R-Ladies organization has grown to more than 178 groups in 48 countries. In addition to her work with R-Ladies, de Queiroz is an expert in machine learning and leads IBM's AI Strategy and Innovations team. Her team contributes to projects such as TensorFlow.