| Kira Radinsky | |
| Birth Date: | 28 July 1986 |
| Birth Place: | Ukraine |
| Nationality: | Israeli |
| Occupation: | Computer scientist, inventor, entrepreneur |
| Known For: | Predictive data mining, Co-founding SalesPredict and Diagnostic Robotics |
| Chief Executive Officer of Diagnostic Robotics | |
| Awards: | Woman of the Year (2016 by Lady Globes magazine), Forbes 30 under 30 (2015), MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 (2013) |
Kira Radinsky (; born July 28, 1986) is a Ukraine-born Israeli computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, specializing in predictive data mining.[1]
Radinsky gained recognition after being selected by the MIT Technology Review to the "35 Innovators Under 35" list. Her work was described in the popular press as predicting the first in 130 years outbreak of cholera in Cuba, based on the pattern identified by mining of 150 years of data from various sources: in poor countries, floods within a year after a drought often follow by a cholera outbreak.[2] [3]
While working on her Ph.D. she co-founded a company, SalesPredict, based on similar ideas, but with different algorithms (the intellectual property of her work belongs to Technion).[2] It was acquired by eBay in 2016, where Kira Radinsky worked as chief scientist and the director of data science during 2016–2019.
Radinsky is a member of the World Economic Forum.[4] In the year 2021, she was declared among its 'Young Global Leaders'[5] [6] to be part of the proactive multistakeholder community of the world’s next-generation leaders to inform and influence decision-making and mobilize transformation".[7]
Since the end of 2021, Radinsky also is the Chief Executive Officer at Diagnostic Robotics, Tel Aviv, which she co-founded in 2019.[8] She is also a visiting professor at Technion teaching the applications of predictive data mining in medicine.[9] She has co-authored over 10 patents and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles.[10]