Cathy O'Neil

American mathematician

Cathy O'Neil
Catherine ("Cathy") Helen O'Neil is an American mathematician, data scientist, and author. She is the author of the New York Times best-seller Weapons of Math Destruction, and opinion columns in Bloomberg View. O'Neil was active in the Occupy movement. Education and career. O'Neil attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate, received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1999, and afterward held positions in the mathematics departments of MIT and Barnard College,. She left academia in 2007, and worked for four years in the finance industry. She worked as an analyst at D. E. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_O%27Neil

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