Eugenia Kuyda is an artifical intelligence programmer. She is the founder and CEO of Replika. Previously, Kudya was a tech journalist. She was a columnist at one of Russia's biggest dailies and also founded Bribr, an app that could surreptitiously record someone if they were asking for a bribe. Kuyda received her B.A. in Journalism from Università IULM, her M.A. in Journalism from Moscow State Institute of International Relations , and her M.B.A. in Finance from London Business School.