Kira Radinsky

Kira Radinsky (; born July 28, 1986) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, specializing in predictive data mining. and artificial intelligence, a high-tech manager, scientist, and a visiting professor at the Technion. She is a member of the Israel Securities Authority. Former Director of Data Science and Chief Scientist at eBay Israel.

Biography Radinsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine. Her parents separated before she was born, and she immigrated to Israel with her mother when she was 4. She grew up in Nesher. Her mother was a mathematician by training. Her father immigrated to Israel separately and became ultraorthodox, but they are not in touch.

Radinsky attended Yitzhak Rabin High School in Nesher. Between 2004 and 2007, she served in the Intelligence Unit 8200 as a programmer, and in 2006 she won the Israel Defense Prize as part of her unit's programming team.

Academic activity Radinsky gained recognition after being selected by the MIT Technology Review to the "35 Innovators Under 35" list. Her work was described in the popular press as predicting the first in 130 years outbreak of cholera in Cuba, based on the pattern identified by mining of 150 years of data from various sources: in poor countries, floods within a year after a drought often follow by a cholera outbreak.

While working on her Ph.D. she co-founded a company, SalesPredict, based on similar ideas, but with different algorithms (the intellectual property of her work belongs to Technion). In the year 2021, she was declared among its 'Young Global Leaders' to be part of the proactive multistakeholder community of the world’s next-generation leaders to inform and influence decision-making and mobilize transformation".

Since the end of 2021, Radinsky also is the Chief Executive Officer at Diagnostic Robotics, Tel Aviv, which she co-founded in 2019. She is also a visiting professor at Technion teaching the applications of predictive data mining in medicine. She has co-authored over 10 patents and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles.

Personal life Radinsky lives in Zichron Yaacov, married to Sagi Davidovitz, a high-tech entrepreneur and CEO of SparkBeyond, which developed a search engine focused on discoveries and science. Mother of two.

Awards and recognition 2016 selected as the "Woman of the Year" by Lady Globes magazine 2015 included in Forbes "30 under 30" young innovators and entrepreneurs list 2014 selected as one of the torchbearers in the national Israeli Independence Day ceremony 2013 included in MIT Technology Review's "35 Innovators Under 35" list