Dr. Alex Yurchenko,  Senior Vice President, Chief Data Science Officer, leads Black Book’s Data Science and Data Operation teams. His responsibilities include the development and support of all in-house machine learning algorithms, models, and forecasting technics for analyzing trends in the automotive industry. Additionally, Alex leads custom analytics engagements with Black Book’s partners. His background includes college level teaching, research in pure mathematics, application of machine learning, modeling and forecasting to solve complex business problems. 

In his previous roles Alex was an Adjunct Professor teaching in variety of colleges. After switching to the business world, he worked as a data scientist at one of the top advertising agency. Alex holds a Doctorate’s Degree in Mathematics from Georgia Institute of Technology. He resides in Atlanta with his wife and two daughters.