Franziska Bell, PhD

Director, Data Science, Data Science Platforms, Uber

Franziska Bell is the Head of Data Science Platforms at Uber, where she founded the Anomaly Detection, Forecasting and Natural Language Platform teams. In addition, she leads Data Science for Strategic Finance, Office of the CTO, Computer Vision, Experimentation, Behavioral Science, Infrastructure, Data, Growth Platform and Customer Care.

Before Uber, Franziska was a Postdoc at Caltech where she developed a novel, highly accurate approximate quantum molecular dynamics theory to calculate chemical reactions for large, complex systems, such as enzymes. Franziska earned her Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry from UC Berkeley focusing on developing highly accurate, yet computationally efficient approaches which helped unravel the mechanism of non-silicon-based solar cells and properties of organic conductors.