Irina Kukuyeva, Ph.D.

AI due diligence @ Kukuyeva Consulting
AI due diligence | Fractional Chief Data Officer | Advisory board member | Mentor
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Dr. Irina Kukuyeva is a fractional Chief Data Officer helping VCs evaluate AI start-ups. She also advises companies on product, data, and analytics strategies to develop customer-centric, data-driven products with market fit.

Irina has 10+ years of experience collaborating with technical and business/clinical stakeholders, scoping out, developing, and productionalizing machine learning models for start-ups and large companies in healthcare, IoT, fashion, hospitality, social media, online advertising, market research, and online advertising.

She has mentored 50+ data professionals since 2013 and trained over 1000 through teaching graduate students and hosting workshops in the local community.

Irina holds a PhD in Statistics from UCLA, where she developed a novel image compression algorithm and uncovered similarities between two storms on Jupiter -- a finding confirmed by NASA’s Juno mission.

She's the author of "Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want: How to Identify the Real Business Question" blog post and shares advice for aspiring/current data professionals on her blog: https://www.ikukuyeva.com/blog.

All skill levels and backgrounds are welcome. You're passionate about data and willing to work independently.


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Data Products Consulting Connected Devices (IoT) Healthcare Data Science AI Startups Business impact HealthTech Venture Capital Pitch Deck AI due diligence Product-Market Fit Product-Led Growth