Lisa Cohen

Director of Data Science – Gemini, Assistant, Search Platforms Google

Lisa Cohen is Director of Data Science for Gemini (formerly "Bard"), Google Assistant, and Search Platforms. She leads an organization of data scientists at Google, responsible for using data to create excellent user experiences across these products, and partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and User Experience Research. Formerly, Lisa was Head of Data Science and Engineering for Twitter, helping drive the strategy and direction of the Twitter product, through machine learning, metric development, experimentation and causal analyses. Before Twitter, Lisa led the Azure Customer Growth Analytics organization as part of Microsoft Cloud Data sciences. Her team was responsible for analyzing OKRs, informing data-driven decisions, and developing data science models to help customers be successful on Azure. Lisa worked at Microsoft for 17yrs, and also helped develop multiple versions of Visual Studio. She holds Bachelor and Masters degrees from Harvard in Applied Mathematics. You can follow Lisa on LinkedIn and Medium.