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Emeli Dral is a Co-founder & CTO of Evidently AI, currently working in this role since 2020. Before that, they were a Machine Learning Instructor at Coursera, Co-founder & Instructor at Data Mining in Action, Visiting Lecturer at HARBOUR.SPACE, Visiting Lecturer at Graduate School of Management St. Petersburg State University, Co-founder & Chief Data Scientist at Mechanica AI, Visiting Lecturer at Yandex School of Data Analysis, Senior Lecturer at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) - MIPT, Phystech, Chief Data Scientist at Yandex Data Factory, and Data Scientist at Yandex. Emeli has co-authored and instructed a Machine Learning and Data Analysis specialisation with over 100,000 students and 10,000 reviews with an average score of 4.7/5.0. Emeli has also authored and instructed an Industrial Machine Learning course and a Business Analytics and Big Data course for Executive MBA students. As Chief Data Scientist at Yandex Data Factory, they built and managed several data science teams and developed machine learning solutions and underlying technological platforms. Emeli also developed e-commerce recommender systems, resulting in up to 25% increase in clicks and up to 5% increase in recommendation revenue.

Emeli Dral obtained a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics and Informatics from Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia between 2007 and 2011. Emeli then pursued a Master's degree in Computer Science at Yandex School of Data Analysis between 2010 and 2012, followed by a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics and Informatics at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia between 2011 and 2013.