Author

Books by Cathy O'Neil

Cathy O'Neil is an American mathematician and data scientist who received her doctorate in mathematics from Harvard. She worked as a quantitative analyst at hedge funds including D.E. Shaw before moving to the data science industry. She founded the ORCAA algorithmic audit company, which assesses the fairness of models used in high-stakes decisions. Weapons of Math Destruction won the Euler Book Prize in 2019. She writes the mathbabe blog and has testified before Congress on algorithmic accountability.