Yael Garten
Director, Data Science, LinkedIn

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Yael Garten is director of data science at LinkedIn, where she leads a team that focuses on understanding and increasing growth and engagement of LinkedIn’s 400 million members across mobile and desktop consumer products. Yael is an expert at converting data into actionable product and business insights that impact strategy. Her team partners with product, engineering, design, and marketing to optimize the LinkedIn user experience, creating powerful data-driven products to help LinkedIn’s members be productive and successful. Yael champions data quality at LinkedIn; she has devised organizational best practices for data quality and developed internal data tools to democratize data within the company. Yael also advises companies on informatics methodologies to transform high-throughput data into insights and is a frequent conference speaker. She holds a PhD in biomedical informatics from the Stanford University School of Medicine, where her research focused on information extraction via natural language processing to understand how human genetic variations impact drug response, and an MSc from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.