Tal Yarkoni

Tal Yarkoni is currently a research scientist and machine learning lead at X, the moonshot factory (formerly Google X). Prior to X, he worked as a data scientist at Twitter, Inc. In a previous life, Tal was a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where his research focused on developing novel data science and informatics methods for functional neuroimaging and behavioral psychology. In his spare time, Tal dabbles in music and short fiction.