About
Emeli Dral is CTO and co-founder of Evidently AI. She previously served as Chief Data Scientist at Yandex Data Factory and has extensive background in machine learning across e-commerce, manufacturing, and other domains, including contributions to educational content on the topic.
Emeli Dral @emelidral
🚀 New release: Evaluate LLMs with Evidently open-source! Reports, Test Suites, and a Monitoring dashboard with lots of methods: ⚖️ LLM-as-a-judge 🤗 ML-based scoring 📐 Semantic similarity 💬 Text stats/patterns Tutorial: https://t.co/rSMJ1oYBqf GitHub: https://t.co/i0IUdpkDvR https://t.co/Au9zuQTba6
May 28, 2024 · ♥ 9 · ⇄ 1
Emeli Dral @emelidral
And how did you spend your Saturday? 👀 A spoiler preview of mine👇🏽 Working on the new ML Observability Course for @EvidentlyAI! Register here: https://t.co/2dmuym67DF https://t.co/vX9xRjVjxE

Sep 30, 2023 · ♥ 22 · ⇄ 4
Emeli Dral @emelidral
⏰ Staying Alert: how to continuously test ML models in prod. It was really fun to speak at @PyConDE. They now published the recording of the talks! 🚦 How to automate ML test thresholding? 💻 How to compute complex metrics? 🏗 How should you retrain? https://t.co/HRgvafu8SW
Jun 20, 2023 · ♥ 9 · ⇄ 3
Founder at Evidently AIYC S21
Intro paths
Emeli went through Y Combinator (Summer 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Evidently AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Emeli can intro founders to Evidently AI's investors below.
Evidently AI's investors · 4
Co-founders at Evidently AI
Experience
- Evidently AICo-founder & CTOcurrent2020 — present
- CourseraMachine Learning Instructorcurrent2016 — present
- Data Mining in ActionCo-founder & Instructorcurrent2016 — present
- HARBOUR.SPACEVisiting Lecturercurrent2017 — presentGreater Barcelona Metropolitan Area
- Graduate School of Management St. Petersburg State UniversityVisiting Lecturercurrent2018 — present
- Mechanica AICo-founder & Chief Data Scientist2018 — 2020
- Yandex School of Data AnalysisVisiting Lecturer2017 — 2018
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) - MIPT, PhystechSenior Lecturer2016 — 2018
- Yandex Data FactoryChief Data Scientist2017 — 2018Moscow, Russia
- Yandex Data FactoryHead of Predictive Analysis Group2016 — 2017Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
- Yandex Data FactoryData Scientist2014 — 2016Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
- YandexData Scientist2013 — 2014Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
- RamblerSoftware Developer2013Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
- YandexData Analyst2012 — 2013Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Education
- Yandex School of Data AnalysisMaster's degree, Computer Science2010 — 2012
- Peoples’ Friendship University of RussiaMaster's degree, Applied Mathematics and Informatics2011 — 2013
- Peoples’ Friendship University of RussiaBachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics and Informatics2007 — 2011
Skills & more
Languages English · Français · Russian
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Shared employers
Also worked at Evidently AI1
Also worked at Coursera20
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