Kira Radinsky


Kira Radinsky is a Ukraine-born Israeli computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, specializing in predictive data mining.
She gained recognition after her software predicted the first in 130 years outbreak of cholera in Cuba. The prediction was made based on the pattern identified by mining of 150 years of data from various sources: in poor countries, floods within a year after a draught often follow by a cholera outbreak. The disaster-prediction software was developed together with Eric Horvitz while she was an intern at the Microsoft Research during her Ph.D. work at the Technion.
While working on her Ph.D. she co-founded company, SalesPredict, based on similar ideas, but with different algorithms. It was acquired by eBay Israel in 2016, where Kira Radinsky worked as chief scientist and the director of data science during 2016–2019.
Since 2019 she is Chairwoman & Chief Technology Officer at the Diagnostic Robotics, Jerusalem, which she co-founded in 2017.
She is also visiting professor at Technion teaching the applications of predictive data mining in medicine.
She has co-authored over 10 patents.

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