Dustin Hillard

Dustin Hillard is currently an advisor at WicketLabs. Dustin has also served as the CTO of eSentire and Versive. At Microsoft, they were a senior scientist on the Bing team. Prior to that, they were a scientist at Yahoo! where they developed machine learning approaches to improve revenue and quality in search advertising. Dustin has also been a research assistant at the University of Washington and a visiting research fellow at Harvard University.

Dustin Hillard has a PhD from the University of Washington in Electrical Engineering from 2005-2008, where their advisor was Mari Ostendorf. Dustin also has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington from 2002-2005. Lastly, they have a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Music from the University of Washington from 1998-2002.