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Emeli Dral

Founder

Founder at Evidently AI

London, England, United Kingdom

FoundedEvidently AI · YC

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.

Founder at Evidently AIYC S21

Intro paths

YC

Emeli went through Y Combinator (Summer 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

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 ↗

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In turn, Emeli can intro founders to Evidently AI's investors below.

Evidently AI's investors · 4

DN CapitalLondon · $100K – $22M checks · since 2021Framework Venture PartnersToronto · since 2021Runa CapitalSofia · $500K – $5M checks · since 2021Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2021

Co-founders at Evidently AI

ESElena Samuylova
Elena SamuylovaFounder

Experience

  1. Evidently AICo-founder & CTOcurrent2020 — present
  2. CourseraMachine Learning Instructorcurrent2016 — present
  3. Data Mining in ActionCo-founder & Instructorcurrent2016 — present
  4. HARBOUR.SPACEVisiting Lecturercurrent2017 — presentGreater Barcelona Metropolitan Area
  5. Graduate School of Management St. Petersburg State UniversityVisiting Lecturercurrent2018 — present
  6. Mechanica AICo-founder & Chief Data Scientist2018 — 2020
  7. Yandex School of Data AnalysisVisiting Lecturer2017 — 2018
  8. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) - MIPT, PhystechSenior Lecturer2016 — 2018
  9. Yandex Data FactoryChief Data Scientist2017 — 2018Moscow, Russia
  10. Yandex Data FactoryHead of Predictive Analysis Group2016 — 2017Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
  11. Yandex Data FactoryData Scientist2014 — 2016Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
  12. YandexData Scientist2013 — 2014Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
  13. RamblerSoftware Developer2013Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
  14. YandexData Analyst2012 — 2013Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Skills & more

MapReduce19Python28OOP14Mathematics34Algorithms16Statistics21Machine Learning37Information Retrieval11Regular Expressions5Hive12Agile9

Languages English · Français · Russian

From Emeli's professional profile.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Emeli Dral?
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.
Where does Emeli Dral work?
Emeli Dral is Founder of Evidently AI.
What companies did Emeli Dral found?
Emeli Dral founded Evidently AI.
Where did Emeli Dral go to school?
Emeli Dral studied at Yandex School of Data Analysis (Master's degree, Computer Science); Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Informatics); Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics and Informatics).

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