Ava Khonsari

Ava Khonsari is an Applied Scientist at Amazon, where they lead projects aimed at enhancing advertising efficiency through innovative insights and recommendation systems. They have developed models that optimize bidding strategies and target audience selections for advertisers. Prior to their role at Amazon, Ava contributed to the Mindspore open-source machine learning framework at Huawei Technologies, where they proposed an efficient data augmentation solution that led to a patented method. Their early experience includes a Research Assistant position at York University, where they utilized natural language processing and machine learning techniques to analyze large-scale news articles. Ava holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from York University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology.