Yael Garten

Yael Garten is a technology business leader with 20 years of experience in data science, machine learning, consumer product strategy, product quality evaluation and measurement, and biomedical informatics.

She serves on the Board of Directors of Fiverr and Levi Strauss & Co.

Dr. Garten was the AI/ML Director of Data Science and Engineering at Apple from 2017 to 2023. Her team partnered with Apple’s hardware, software and services teams to measure, understand, and optimize the user experience across Apple products and services, creating powerful data-informed machine learning based product experiences. Prior to that, from 2011 to 2017 she worked in a number of positions at LinkedIn Corporation and most recently was Director of Data Science from 2015 until 2017.

She holds a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from the Stanford University School of Medicine, an M.Sc. in Bioinformatics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and a B.Sc. in Computational Biology from Bar-Ilan University, Israel.