Emeli Dral

Emeli Dral is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Evidently AI, an open-source machine learning observability platform based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to this role, she served as the Chief Data Scientist at Yandex Data Factory, where she directed the implementation of more than 50 industrial artificial intelligence projects across the e-commerce, banking, and manufacturing sectors. Dral holds a degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and co-authored a machine learning curriculum on Coursera that has reached over 100,000 students. In 2020, she established Evidently AI to develop tools for evaluating and testing models, subsequently helping the company secure a $7 million funding round led by Almaz Capital in March 2023. Her current focus centers on advancing Machine Learning Operations infrastructure and building scalable production tools for data science teams.