Francesca Lazzeri

Francesca Lazzeri

Principal Data Scientist Manager | Microsoft

Francesca Lazzeri, Ph.D. is a data and machine learning scientist with over 15 years of experience in academic research and tech industry. She is author of the book “Machine Learning for Time Series Forecasting with Python” (Wiley) and many other publications, including technology journals and conferences. Francesca is currently Adjunct Professor of machine learning at Columbia University and Principal Data Scientist Manager at Microsoft, where she leads a team of data scientists and engineers focusing on building scalable machine learning applications for customer retention, fraud and risk management, payments, revenue forecasting and experimentation use cases.

Before joining Microsoft, she was a research fellow at Harvard University in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. She is currently Advisory Board member of the European Union, the Women in Data Science (WiDS) initiative, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. You can find her on LinkedIn, Twitter @frlazzeri and Medium.