Yael Grushka-Cockayne
Professor Yael Grushka-Cockayne's research and teaching activities focus on data science, artificial intelligence, forecasting, project management and behavioral decision-making.
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Her research is published in numerous academic and professional journals, and she is a regular speaker at international conferences in the areas of decision analysis, project management and management science. Prof. Grushka-Cockayne is an award-winning teacher, winning the Darden Morton Leadership Faculty Award in 2011, the University of Virginia's Mead-Colley Award in 2012, the Darden Outstanding Faculty Award in 2013 and 2022, University of Virginia All University Teaching Award in 2015, the Faculty Diversity Award in 2013 and 2018, and the Transformational Faculty Award in 2024. Prof. Grushka-Cockayne teaches the core "Decision Analysis" course, an elective she designed on project management, an elective on data science and a new course on coding with ChatGPT.
Before starting her academic career, she worked in San Francisco as a marketing director of an Israeli ERP company. As an expert in the areas of project management, Prof. Grushka-Cockayne has served as a consultant to international firms in the aerospace and pharma industries. She is a UVA Excellence in Diversity fellow and a member of INFORMS, the President of the Decision Analysis Society, and a member of the Operational Research Society and the Project Management Institute (PMI). She served an associate editor at Management Science and is currently as associate editor at Operation Research.
Grushka-Cockayne was named one of "21 Thought-Leader Professors" in Data Science. Her course "Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management" Coursera MOOC has over 300,000 enrolled, across 200 countries worldwide. Her "Data Science for Business" Harvard Online course, launched in 2021, has taught hundreds of learners around the world.