Mikhail Kachala

Mikhail Kachala is an accomplished AI ML Engineering Manager at Meta, with responsibilities in Ads Quality, Product Recommendation, and Content and Layout Optimisation since November 2022. Prior to this role, Mikhail held various positions at Bayer, including Head of Data Science Consumer Health and Senior Data Scientist, contributing significantly to marketing and sales data science initiatives from July 2016 to November 2022. Earlier experience includes a Data Scientist role at EMBL, research with the Marie Curie Alumni Association, and roles as a Business Analyst at ChemRar High Tech Center and Junior Researcher at the A. N. Frumkin Institute. Mikhail also gained early experience as an intern at Procter & Gamble and Deloitte. Educational qualifications include a PhD in Structural Biology from the University of Hamburg and advanced degrees in Physics of Biological Systems and Molecular and Biological Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.