Emily Glassberg Sands is VP of Data at Coursera
She is a labor economist by training, she loves using data to understand individual decision-making and societal trends, and to build products that solve critical inefficiencies in the market.
She leads the end-to-end data team at Coursera — machine learning, decision science, and data engineering. Coursera attracts tens of millions of individuals from around the world who want to learn and be rewarded for that learning in the labor market, education partners who want a flexible and scalable platform through which to teach the world, and employers who need to transform their talent to keep up with the accelerating change. The data scientists and data engineers fuel data-driven decisions and build data-powered products.