Please join us for the FDS Women’s Career Development Colloquium Series, proudly supported by the Department of Statistics and Data Science (S&DS) and the Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS). This series will feature inspiring talks from female Yale alumni and leading professionals in statistics and related fields who will share their career journeys and valuable insights. We encourage active participation—ask questions, engage in discussions, and take full advantage of this enriching opportunity. The series is dedicated to supporting women in statistics and related fields at Yale, providing a platform where female professionals can share their experiences, discuss challenges, and offer guidance to our students.

Please sign up asap to reserve your spot: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWWZfZ6ZQcHy3bAZjeL18_ELsHIZrGdYWCujghTrLHmeRBMw/viewform?usp=dialog

Organized by Ruixiao Wang, Ph.D. Student in Statistics & Data Science, Yale University

We are currently looking for women speakers for next semester, preferably with a PhD, in statistics, data science, or other quantitative fields, who would love to share their experience and career advice from academia, industry, government, nonprofit sectors, entrepreneurship/startups, consulting, etc. If you have a strong candidate in mind, please contact Ruixiao Wang (ruixiao.wang@yale.edu).

Lunch starts to serve at 11:30am in Room 1307

Connect with us on Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/women-in-stemgroup/shared_invite/zt-2v1vko9x2-IVoeMIKK6Qv~nluiThkqUw

Speaker: Alissa Dubnicki (Google) Economist Behavioral Economics Team Google Alissa Dubnicki is an economist on the Behavioral Economics Team at Google, where she applies her expertise to understand complex analytical problems that go beyond textbook solutions. With a passion for diving deep into data, Alissa enjoys tackling causal inference challenges where traditional methods fall short. Before joining Google, Alissa worked as a litigation consultant at Keystone Strategy and Analysis Group, specializing in competition, trade secret, and marketing cases. Alissa earned her PhD in Economics from Syracuse University, following her undergraduate studies at Princeton University (go tigers!). Outside of her professional life, Alissa is an avid hiker and skier, and enjoys reading — new fiction recommendations welcome.

Speaker: Casey K. Gardiner (Google) Economist Behavioral Economics Team Google Casey K. Gardiner is an applied psychologist. She holds an A.B. in psychology from Dartmouth and a dual PhD in neuroscience and social psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her academic research on reward processing, motivation, and behavior change was supported by an NSF GRF as well as both institutional and external grant funding. Following graduate training, she transitioned to the private sector, working as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and then as an executive at a venture-backed healthtech startup. She is presently a behavioral economist at Google. Across both scholarly and industry settings, she has applied scientific expertise, analytical rigor, and practical problem-solving to address a breadth of critical challenges that we all face in work and life, including: health behavior change, organizational leadership, motivation, talent management, decision-making, mental health, and public health.