Emeli Dral

Emeli Dral is a Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Evidently AI, a startup developing tools to analyse and monitor the performance of machine learning models.

Prior to that, she co-founded a startup focused on the application of machine learning in the industrial sector, and served as the Chief Data Scientist at Yandex Data Factory. She led a team of accomplished data scientists and oversaw the development of machine learning solutions for various industries - from banking to manufacturing. Emeli is a lecturer at the Yandex School of Data Analysis and Harbour.Space University, where she teaches courses on machine learning and data analysis tools. In addition, she is a co-author of the Machine Learning and Data Analysis curriculum at Coursera. In 2017, she co-founded Data Mining in Action, the largest open data science course in Russia with over 500 students in each batch.