Benjamin Cox
Head Of AI Strategy & Operations
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Cox is a strategic AI leader with 14 years of experience advising, investing in, and building frontier technology companies across AI/ML, robotics, computing, web3, and sports tech. Currently Head of AI Strategy & Operations at Rakuten Advertising, he has led cross-functional AI, automation, and innovation programs while founding Ragnarok Research to provide boutique analytics and AI strategy to growth-stage firms and investors. An author on responsible machine learning (O'Reilly) and fair lending perspectives in Frontiers in AI, he combines rigorous research with product-facing competitive strategy from roles at H2O.ai and enterprise transformation at EY. His background spans quant finance, supply-chain analytics at Nike, and founder-level advisory work, enabling him to bridge research, governance, and commercialization. Based in Chicago, he pairs an MBA and MS in Applied Data Science from the University of Chicago with a pragmatic investor's eye for defensible AI assets. A self-described "non-fungible engineer," he brings a blend of technical curiosity and market-minded judgement that often surfaces in interdisciplinary, ethics-forward AI deployments.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Applied Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Applied Data Science at University of ChicagoMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessBachelor of Science (B.S.), Economics & Finance/ Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Economics & Finance/ Business Administration at College of CharlestonSidwell Friends SchoolUniversidad Nebrija
Github Skills (43)
cpp8
c648
bazel7
scalable7
extensible7
social-media7
65026
retrocomputing6
quantity6
build-system6
activitystreams6
units-of-measurement5
apple25
8-bit5
bazel-rules5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
djehuti/prezto
Feb 2016 - Jul 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 comment in 7 years 5 months
shellconfiguration-frameworkzsh-pluginzsh
djehuti/ZipStripper
Mar 2016 - Jul 2023
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 years 4 months
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