Gabriela de Queiroz

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Gabriela de Queiroz is a chief data scientist at IBM, the founder of the global R-Ladies and AI Inclusive organizations.[1][2][3] She was raised in Brazil and received her bachelor's degree in statistics from Rio de Janeiro State University.[4] She has a master’s in epidemiology at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and another one in statistics at California State University, East Bay.[4]

Work and education

de Queiroz moved to the United States in 2012 to begin her master's degree in statistics at California State University, East Bay.[1] Interested in creating an inclusive space for women learning the programming language R, she began a Meetup group in the San Francisco Bay area.[1] Since then, the R-Ladies organization has grown to more than 178 groups in 48 countries.

In addition to her work with R-Ladies, de Queiroz is an expert in machine learning and leads IBM's AI Strategy and Innovations team.[3][5] Her team contributes to projects such as TensorFlow.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Kopf, Dan (24 July 2019). "How R-Ladies made data science inclusive". Quartz. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
  2. ^ "Tidal energy proposal wins UF, IBM technology contest". www.newswise.com. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
  3. ^ a b c Chan, Rosalie. "This IBM manager moved from Brazil, learned to code, and now leads a worldwide organization to teach women how to be data scientists". Business Insider. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
  4. ^ a b "Gabriela de Queiroz | Amstat News". 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
  5. ^ "Brasileira é chief de data science, AI e inovação na IBM". Baguete (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-02-09.

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