Dr. Anya Petrov-Nakamura
Data Science Lead
“The Translator”
Responsible AI Lead | Ethics & Fairness
📍 Washington, DC💼 8 years experience🏢 Data Science
👤 About
Bridges the gap between data science and business. Makes ML accessible to everyone.
Left a lucrative ML role for AI fairness because the most important algorithm decides who gets a loan, a job, or bail. Makes AI ethical — not because it's trendy, but because it's urgent.
💪 Key Strengths
Business alignmentML communicationStakeholder management
💼 Work History
Google
Responsible AI Lead
2019–2024
- Fairness framework used by 1K+ engineers
- AI ethics guidelines adopted company-wide
ACLU
Technology Fellow
2016–2019
- Landmark AI bias research
🏅 Industry Certifications
Google
✓ Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer
Microsoft
✓ Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)
Other
✓ IBM Data Science Professional Certificate✓ Deep Learning Specialization Certificate
IAPP
✓ Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US)
🎓 Education
Ph.D. Computational Ethics
MIT
2016
🛠️ Skills
AI EthicsFairness TestingBias DetectionInterpretabilityPolicyPythonResearchEducation