Ben Allison

Ben Allison is the Director of Applied Science at Amazon Advertising, where they design, build, launch, and operate machine learning products that aim to address real-world problems with a global impact. Previously, they held various roles at Amazon, including Senior Principal Applied Scientist and Senior Machine Learning Scientist, where they led significant advancements in personalized recommendations and ad products. Ben earned a PhD in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning from the University of Sheffield, where they also completed their undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Their earlier experience includes post-doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh and work as a Research Scientist at Actual Analytics.