Cassie Kozyrkov

Kozyr

Speaking and advisory services. Request form: makecassietalk.com

Kozyr was renamed from Data Scientific.

Chief Executive Officer

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Served a full two year term as Innovation Advisor and Councillor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, with a focus on the impact of AI on the financial markets and global policy.

Innovation Advisory Council Member

Google

Decision Intelligence is an interdisciplinary field concerned with all aspects of decision-making.  It combines Data Science (statistics, machine learning, AI, analytics) with the Behavioral Sciences (psychology, neuroscience, economics, and the managerial sciences).

I serve as a thought leader in this new discipline, guiding Google and the world in making safe, effective use of AI and data.

Chief Decision Scientist

My mission is to democratize artificial intelligence and guide business leaders in harnessing the transformative power of machine learning.

Chief Data Scientist, Office of the CTO

Youngest ever member of Google's Office of the CTO, specializing in AI and data science.

I'm also a coauthor of Google's Technical Director training program to teach others how to succeed in the role.

Technical Director, AI and Data

My roles are: statistician, machine learning expert, mentor, data scientist, evangelist, decision scientist, and consultant.  I bridge the gap between leaders and quantitative analysts / researchers.

As Google's statistics and machine learning sensei:
* I've advised 200+ teams at Google on their analytics processes.
* My ideas have sparked 400+ new projects.
* I've trained 20,000+ analysts/leaders/engineers in rigorous data-driven decision-making and/or using machine learning to transform their work.

Largest projects in: Search Advertising, Google Maps, Machine Intelligence, Infrastructure, YouTube

Statistician

Self-Employed

Data science consulting and analytics services for clients from government organizations, private sector firms, and academia.

Data Science Consultant

North Carolina State University

Statistics Lecturer

Statistical Computing, Advanced Topics in Statistics: Big Data, Special Topics in Statistics: Data Mining, Applied Time Series Analysis, Applied Multivariate Data Analysis, Advanced Probability and Measure Theory, SAMSI Computational Advertising, Statistical Methods II, Statistical Consulting, Statistical Theory I, Statistical Theory II, Linear Models and Variance Components, Stochastic Processes, Doctoral Research, Supervised Doctoral Teaching, R Programming

Mathematical Statistics PhD Student

Duke University

Psychology & neuroscience with specialization in transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) methods and the science of decision-making.

Neuroeconomics PhD Candidate

Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago

Coordinated lab research projects and team effort. Designed and ran experiments.

Project Manager

Charitable contributions and decision-making research with Professors Steve Levitt and John List.

Research Assistant - Prof. John List

Cassie is Google’s former Chief Decision Scientist and a sought-after AI advisor, working with senior leaders at places like Lenovo, NASA, and Gucci. She is currently CEO of Data Scientific and is known for founding the field of Decision Intelligence.

Cassie is a beloved personality in the data and AI community, followed by over half a million tech professionals. She is also a renowned keynote speaker and writer. ( If you'd like her to speak at your event, here's her booking form: makecassietalk.com )

In almost 10 years at Google, Cassie personally trained over 20,000 Googlers in data-driven decision-making and AI and has helped over 500 projects implement decision intelligence best practices. Before that, she served in Google's Office of the CTO as Chief Data Scientist. The rest of her 20 years of experience was split between data science, consulting, lecturing, and academia.

If you've had a good chuckle while learning about AI, statistics, or decision-making, chances are you've encountered her writing, which has reached millions of readers. She has been honored as a LinkedIn Top Voice for 5 years and as a #1 Artificial Intelligence writer on Medium for 7 years.

Speaking and advisory services. Request form: makecassietalk.com

86% of enterprises plan to invest more in agentic AI.
6% trust agents to run core processes.

Let's talk about that gap!

Harvard Business Review just released some findings about tech decision-makers (n=603):
🤖 86% expect agentic AI investment to grow in 2 years
🤖 6% fully trust agents with end-to-end processes
🤖 ~25% say they're "ready" on infrastructure, data, security, and governance

That lack of trust is a good thing, in my opinion. Trusting complex probabilitistic systems without re-archtiecting complex processes is a recipe for kablooies. If anything it should give you hope. The trouble is that the redesign is difficult except in narrow use cases.

The model isn't the bottleneck anymore.
The plumbing and the people are.

Fragmented apps and data → agents can't get reliable context 
Legacy processes → never designed for autonomous execution 
Security and compliance → no playbook for "agents at the core" 
Employees → unclear if agents are tools or replacements

The report points to enterprise orchestration as the missing layer—connecting systems, standardizing actions, enforcing governance so agents behave predictably instead of becoming shadow IT.

Old question: "Which LLM should we use?"
New questions:
Which processes are we willing to redesign around agents?
How do we orchestrate data, tools, and guardrails so we can trust them with real work?

In 3 years, the gap won't be "who has agents."
It'll be who rebuilt their processes so agents can actually run them.

Where is your team right now?
A) Still experimenting at the edges (help desks, copilots) 
B) Re-architecting workflows so agents own real outcomes 
C) Somewhere in between, trying to figure out where to start
D) Waiting and watching others stub their toes

Drop your letter below. Your comments make my (digital) world 'round.

P.S. On a completely different note,  my Decision-Making with ChatGPT course is running on demand right now with a live Q&A with me next week. Come ask me anything! decisiongptcourse.com

CEO, Google's first Chief Decision Scientist, AI Adviser, Decision Strategist, Keynote Speaker (makecassietalk.com), LinkedIn Top Voice

Agentic HBR

Been wondering when my next cohort will be? Surprise! The time is NOW. If you missed the previous run or have been waiting to join, enrollment is now live:

 👉 https://lnkd.in/eG7EBtTv

The last cohorts made something clear: leaders aren’t looking for more information. They’re looking for clearer judgment. ChatGPT helps - but only when you use it in the right parts of the thinking process.

In this cohort, we’ll continue the work of turning AI into a genuine thinking partner instead of a shortcut. You’ll learn how to:

• Use ChatGPT to reduce effort without losing rigor
• Avoid the trap that turns “AI-assisted” into lazy thinking
 • Spot cognitive biases before they distort outcomes
 • Separate luck from decision quality
 • Build a decision scribe so you finally learn from your choices
 • Operate with confident judgment instead of drowning in advice

You’ll get 30+ on-demand videos (available as soon as you enroll), a 2-hour live Q&A with me (at 1 PM ET Dec 18), prerecorded Q&A from earlier cohorts, templates, frameworks, and a global community.

If you're working on sharpening your thinking in an AI world, Cohort 3 is now open.
 👉 https://lnkd.in/e-RaxVJJ

If this resonates, a repost or subscribing to decision.substack.com helps the course reach the leaders who need it.

#DecisionIntelligence #AILeadership #StrategicThinking #DecisionMaking #AI

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Principal Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect for Financial Services
Learning the amazing breadth and depth of AWS services.
Understanding client workloads and finding ways to improve them, especially if much of the undifferentiated heavy lifting can be offloaded to AWS.

Senior Solutions Architect - Financial Services

American Corporate Partners (ACP)

American Corporate Partners (ACP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting veterans in their transition from the armed services to the civilian workforce. With the help of business professionals nationwide, ACP offers veterans tools for long-term career development through mentoring, career counseling, and networking opportunities.

Mentor

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Product Owner for Quartz Core Grid Compute,  Program Manager for Quartz Python 3 Migration

Vice President - Quartz Core

Goldman Sachs

Regulatory Reporting - Technical Architect, Industrialization Team Lead.
Operations Technology - Program, Project and Risk Manager.

Technologies used include Cloud, Java, JavaScript, ETL, Sybase IQ, DB2, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Hadoop, PERL, Python, C#, Autosys, LINUX, Windows

Vice President - Operations Technology - PM, Risk, Cloud, Workflow, Automation, SDLC, BCP

Credit Suisse

Project Manager and Software Architect in Prime Brokerage Information Technology.

As hands-on project manager, I led teams of developers in the US, Europe and Asia to design and deliver IT projects critical to the continuation and growth of Credit Suisse' Prime Brokerage business.
These projects included client reporting, stock loan and accrual calculation systems, which currently contribute millions of dollars per month to the firm's bottom line.

Technologies used include Java, J2EE, C#.NET, Informatica, Sybase SQL, XML, DHTML, AJAX, PERL, Control-M, UNIX, Windows

Vice President - Prime Brokerage Reporting and Calculation

Morgan Stanley - IED (via Digitas)

As GUI Development Team Lead, designed and led the development of a 2-year project to create a cutting-edge, highly interactive web GUI, allowing complex and highly dynamic information sharing and workflow collaboration among Morgan Stanley's equity traders, analysts and salespeople, allowing the firm to generate new business and expand existing client relationships.

The technology used combined DHTML and an applet-based data store years before the invention of AJAX/Jquery, which popularized this kind of design.

Senior Software Consultant - Investment Banking - Web Portal/Collaboration Tools

Globalware

Designed and implemented software to enable eCommerce including:
Web UI workflow optimization
ETL data parsing, transformation, enrichment, reporting
Bulk data analysis, enrichment and cleansing
Pattern matching algorithms for near matches to restricted trading lists

Senior Software Analyst - eCommerce, Workflow Automation, Database and Web Development

"Measure, Improve, Repeat!"
Adaptable, pragmatic, hands-on software development lead who's worn every hat - from individual contributor to Product Owner and Program Manager.
Over 15 years of diverse experience in app/database design, implementation and optimization, workflow streamlining and project management.
Experienced Product Owner and Project/Program Manager, using Agile methodologies to lead global teams. 
Excels at balancing technical and business needs, quantify and measurably improve users’ experience of technology.
Highly adaptable skillset, ranging from individual contribution to leading teams, managing projects and leading programs. 

Specialties: 
Software Design and Development
Agile Product, Project and Risk Management
Communication
Problem Solving
Cloud Compute
Quantification and Optimization
Data Visualization
Team Building
Cost Reduction
Usability
Disaster Recovery 

Contact: max.winter1@yahoo.com

This is a personal account. Any opinions posted here are mine, and do not represent those of my employer.

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