[citation needed] After graduation, Kozyrkov worked as a research assistant at the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, then enrolled in graduate studies at Duke University in psychology and cognitive neuroscience with a focus on neuroeconomics.

[citation needed] Kozyrkov joined Google as a statistician in the Research and Machine Intelligence division in 2014.

[citation needed] Her area of focus at Google is on applied AI and data science process architecture.

[7][better source needed] Kozyrkov is also a technology evangelist and has been called a data science thought leader.

[8] She has been a keynote speaker at large conferences [1], including Web Summit,[citation needed] the world's largest technology event.