Genetha Gray

Dr. Genetha Gray manages the Data Science group of the Employee Success Strategy & Analytics (ESSA) team at Salesforce.  ESSA focuses on strategic planning to enhance the employee experience using data.  Genetha and her team study how geographically dispersed teams interact, employee benefits and well-being, skills-based learning & development, and pay equity.  Previously, she was an analytics research scientist at Intel Corporation where she worked on both engineering applications related to fully autonomous vehicles and people analytics applications including modeling the changing representation of women in the tech workforce.  Prior to joining Intel, Genetha spent 12 years as a member of the technical staff at Sandia National Labs.  There, she worked on problems in the areas of the electrical and mechanical engineering of systems, the storage of nuclear waste, groundwater remediation, cyber security, and energy including renewables integration and grid operations.  She has a Ph.D. in Computational & Applied Mathematics from Rice University and is the co-author of numerous research publications including a text book on environmental modeling.  Genetha volunteers with groups working to improve mathematical modeling education and mentors women studying mathematics.