Laura Edell

Chief Data Scientist, AI Markets & Innovation

Laura is the chief data scientist , leading a team of data scientists, at Microsoft focused on building new market opportunities in the AI and sustainability space. In 2020, her podcast ‘Annielytics’ went live and found tremendous success focusing on Women in Tech and Girls in STEM, two areas that are near and dear to her heart . Also in 2020, Medium named Laura one of the top influencers working in Data Science today where she continues to drive innovation and curiosity in her thought leadership. Prior to joining Microsoft, Laura worked for Apple on Siri Gen 1 and Expedia where her work building the flight pricing optimization algorithms resulted in tremendous success but also provided a great life lesson after she inadvertently included a bug in her code which resulted in a glaring red text based error & a sizable revenue loss. This seemingly substantial error taught Laura the value of incorporating a more DevOps focus to her ML scripting and programming work (now known as MLOps) that she continues to evangelize today. Laura is also an avid fantasy football fan where her algorithms have won her the league title several years in a row, shutting down those who said stats could never win a fantasy football season let alone 6 seasons back to back. Outside of work, she is an EDM music producer out of her home studio, a skill she picked up having been a South Beach DJ in her former life – in fact , many , including Laura, believe that math and music are very closely aligned using similar sides of the brain . Laura is also dyslexic, something she now embraces wholeheartedly – in fact, what was once called a disability is something she views as a gift, having shaped her curious outlook and creative approach as a data scientist. Twitter: @Laura_E_Edell LinkedIn : lauraerinedell Spotify: https://aka.ms/annielytics Blog: https://aka.

Talks About
#ai #ai4good #datascience #womenintech #impostersyndrome

Preferred Locations
#NorthAmerica