Odette alumna and AI leader finds success in the unexpected
Andrea Yzeiri serves on the board of WEtech Alliance and chairs the McGill MMA Advisory Board, drawing on her more than a decade of experience as a data specialist across sectors. (PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDREA YZIERI / University of Windsor)
By John-Paul Bonadonna
Andrea Yzeiri was supposed to become a lawyer.
As an undergraduate at the University of Windsor, she was pursuing two degrees with an eventual career in intellectual property or commercial law in mind. Then, somewhere along the way, she discovered statistics, optimization and research — and found herself increasingly drawn away from the career she had imagined.
“I kind of stumbled on it,” Yzeiri says of the path that eventually led her into artificial intelligence.
“I really fell in love with data.”