Dawn Woodard

Dawn Woodard is a distinguished engineer at LinkedIn, leading a company-wide initiative on embedding-based retrieval for search and recommendation systems since May 2022. Previously, Dawn served as a technical advisor at inBalance, contributing to electricity price forecasting systems until the startup's acquisition by Stem Inc after receiving YCombinator backing. At Uber, Dawn held various leadership roles in applied science and data science, managing machine learning for platforms and developing advanced pricing technologies. Dawn's academic background includes a tenure as an associate professor at Cornell University, focusing on operations research and machine learning, along with visiting and consulting roles at Microsoft Research. Education includes a Ph.D. in Statistical Science from Duke University and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematical and Computational Science from Stanford University.