Kira Radinsky

Kira Radinsky was born in 1986 in Kyiv

Radinsky was born in Kyiv in 1986. She immigrated to Israel with her mother at the age of 4 and grew up in Nesher.

She began studying computer science at the Technion at 15. She earned a BSc, an MSc and a PhD there, the graduate degrees under Shaul Markovitch. Her doctoral work dealt with predicting future events from web and historical data.

From 2004 to 2007 she served as a programmer in military intelligence. She received the Israel Defense Prize in 2006 and again in 2018.

At Microsoft Research she worked with Eric Horvitz on a system that used historical news to estimate future events, including a cholera outbreak in Cuba. In 2012 she co-founded SalesPredict, which eBay acquired in 2016, and she then served as eBay's chief scientist in Israel until 2019. In 2017 she co-founded Diagnostic Robotics, where she is chief technology officer.

She is an associate research professor at the Technion, working on biomedical AI and computational biology. She has served on the boards of the Israel Securities Authority, Esh Digital Bank and Nebius Group. She lives in Zikhron Ya'akov and is a mother of 2.