Béatrice Moissinac

Béatrice Moissinac, PhD

Staff Data Scientist

Béatrice Moissinac is a Staff Data Scientist at Okta. She holds two Masters, and a PhD in Computer Science, and joined Okta in 2021. Her main focus is applied AI research to Identity Security, or how to build new AI-based products to better secure Okta's customers. Between designing two algorithms, she enjoys long-distance running, camping & backpacking, reading, playing board games, gardening, sewing, building legos, and if time permits, renovating her house. Her favorite algorithm is Dynamic Time Warping.

What is AI?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be organizing our social media timelines and automatically improving the pictures on our phones, but it’s a field that’s widely misunderstood.  AI is, after all, an incredibly complex field in computer science, where the top researchers earn as much as NFL quarterback prospects. It introduces terms seldom found in…
By Béatrice Moissinac, PhD
October 30, 2023

What is machine learning?

Patterns. The world is full of them, and we often don’t even notice.  Human language is a great example. We understand each other because things like verb conjugations and word order typically follow a rigid structure. The same is also true for music, where the predictability of rhythm and scales provide a measure of order and predictability.  If…
By Béatrice Moissinac, PhD in Industry Insight
October 26, 2023

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