Katya has 19 years experience in analytics services and software development. She has worked across metal and mineral mining & processing, steel and advanced manufacturing industries globally. She founded DataStories, an advanced analytics software and services firm in Belgium in 2011 with a single purpose of making machine learning easy to interpret, internalize, exploit, and benefit from by industrial experts. Since August 2021 DataStories joined Partners in Performance, where Katya leads Prescriptive Analytics practice. Katya has a PhD in data-driven modelling from Tilburg University and PDEng in industrial mathematics from TU Eindhoven. She was an advisor in Artificial Intelligence and materials modeling to the Belgian and German governments and the European Commission.