Friederike Schüür

Director of Machine Learning, Cityblock Health

New York City

Friederike is the Director of Machine Learning and Research at CityBlock Health, a Sidewalk Labs’ spinout and part of the Alphabet family, and she is currently taking part in the Assembly Program at MIT Media Lab and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. Friederike was a member of Fast Forward Labs (FFL), acquired by Cloudera, where she worked on emerging machine learning algorithms to develop new capabilities for industry. She is a part of the data advisory board of USA for UNHCR (UN Refugees) and a long-standing Data Science for Social Good volunteer with DataKind. She earned a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London, an MA in Philosophy, and an MS in Psychology.