CLAUDIA PERLICH
Claudia started her career in Data Science at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, concentrating on research in data analytics and machine learning for complex real-world domains and applications. She tends to be domain agnostic having worked on almost anything from Twitter, DNA, server logs, CRM data, web usage, breast cancer, movie ratings and many more. More recently she acted as the Chief Scientist at Dstillery where she designed, developed, analyzed, and optimized machine learning that drives digital advertising to prospective customers of brands.
Claudia continues to be an active public speaker and has published over 50 scientific publications as well as a few patents in the area of machine learning. She has won many data mining competitions and awards at Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) conferences, and served as the organization’s General Chair in 2014.
Claudia is the past winner of the Advertising Research Foundation’s (ARF) Grand Innovation Award and has been selected for Crain’s New York’s 40 Under 40 list, Wired Magazine’s Smart List, and Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People. She acts as an advisor to a number of philanthropic organizations including AI for Good, Datakind, Data and Society and others. She received her PhD in Information Systems from the NYU Stern School of Business where she still teaches as an adjunct professor.