Summary
Yuchao Ma is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Ads with eight years of industry experience and a PhD in Computer Science in progress, specializing in wearable computing, machine learning, data analytics, and statistical inference. He has led ML and reinforcement learning projects across Amazon—from supply chain planning and selection completeness measurement to seller growth strategy and DSP bidding optimization for mobile app promotion. Comfortable taking research ideas into production, he combines NLP, optimization, and deep RL techniques to drive measurable business impact. Based in Seattle, he brings a researcher’s rigor to large-scale engineering problems and an unusual cross-domain perspective gained from both supply-chain and advertising ML systems.
8 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University at Albany
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Washington State University