Applied Science Manager— Alexa AI @ (September 2018 - April 2021)
Principal data and applied science manager @ (March 2018 - September 2018)
Data and Machine Learning Science Manager @ (April 2016 - February 2018)
Senior Machine Learning Scientist @ (February 2016 - April 2016)
Machine Learning Scientist @ (November 2014 - February 2016)
SDE @ (April 2013 - October 2014)
Postdoctoral Researcher @ (June 2012 - March 2013)
Graduate student @ (September 2007 - June 2012)
Summer intern @ (June 2010 - September 2010)
Benjamin Yao Education
University of California, Los Angeles
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (Statistics)
2007-2011
Chinese Academy of Sciences
M.S. (Image Analysis)
2003-2006
University of Science and Technology of China
Bachelor (EE)
1998-2003
middle school
Bebeyond
Benjamin Yao Skills
Apache Spark
Python
R
Machine Learning
Algorithms
Natural Language Processing
Software Engineering
Optimization
Data Mining
Statistics
SQL
LaTeX
C++
Java
Pattern Recognition
Image Processing
Data Analysis
Computer Vision
Statistical Modeling
Matlab
Mathematical Modeling
Digital Image Processing
Signal Processing
Numerical Analysis
Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval
Computer Science
OpenCV
Computational advertisement
Distributed Systems
Linux
Software Development
Big Data
Hadoop
MySQL
Training
Data Science
Natural Language
Microsoft Word
C
Biochemistry
Computational
Benjamin Yao Summary
Benjamin Yao, based in Seattle, WA, US, is currently a Senior Applied Science Manager -- Core Modeling, Alexa+ at Amazon. Benjamin Yao brings experience from previous roles at Amazon and Microsoft. Benjamin Yao holds a 2007 - 2011 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Statistics @ University of California, Los Angeles. With a robust skill set that includes Apache Spark, Python, R, Machine Learning, Algorithms and more. Benjamin Yao has 2 emails and 1 mobile phone numbers on RocketReach.
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