Lynn Cherny

Biography

Before joining emlyon, Lynn was part of the technical staff of AT&T Labs Research from 1995 to 1998. She also held senior positions in user interface design by several companies such as Axance.com (Paris, 2001-2002), Adobe (2002-2004) and Autodesk (2005-2007) and was self-employed consultant for data analysis and data visualization projects (since 2007). Lynn has a strong international reputation among companies and key players at the crossing of data mining and data science. She holds a PhD in Linguistics (with courses in HCI, computer science and ethnography) from Standford University, CA. With her outstanding experience in data science, Lynn will contribute to the development of an emlyon data science for business offer.

Research Interest

Creativity in AI and machine learning, text analysis and visualization, data visualization, data analysis.