Aleksandr Kogan (scientist)

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Aleksandr Kogan
Born (1986-04-06) April 6, 1986
Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Moldova)
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
University of Hong Kong (MA, PhD)
OccupationsCEO of Philometrics, psychologist and data scientist, University of Cambridge

Aleksandr Kogan (born April 6, 1986) is a Moldovan-born American scientist, who is known for his research on the link between oxytocin and kindness, and for having developed the app that allowed Cambridge Analytica to collect personal details of 30 million Facebook users. He worked as a University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge from 2012-2018 and is currently a technology entrepreneur.

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