Christina Stathopoulos - Analytical Lead at Waze #11

Our guest today is Christina Stathopoulos, Analytical Lead at Waze and Adjunct Professor at IE University in Madrid.

In our conversation,  Christina first shares her opinion on her MSc in Business Analytics and Big Data at IE university and discusses the pros and cons of an in-person vs an online master. Christina then talks about her transition into teaching, the challenges that she faced as well as advice that she has on how to start learning more about Data Science and Machine Learning. We also talk about the #bookaweekchallenge and discuss the importance of building a personal brand.

We then focus on AI at Waze, a navigation app bought by Google in 2013 for around $1 billion.  Christina explains how she got into Google and why Machine Learning plays such an important role. We finally outline the importance of diversity in tech teams and share advice on what "tech minorities" such as women can do to break into the field and reject the "imposter syndrome". 

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