About

Jun Ma is a data-driven professional with a passion for machine learning and data mining. As a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, he is currently working on building large-scale transformer models for e-business applications in the Search M5 team. Jun has a broad and deep understanding of machine learning and data mining, and his strong algorithm design skills make him a coding geek. He is an articulate communicator who can present ideas with clarity and precision while grasping key points quickly. Jun is a self-motivated thinker who hates anything that is not optimized, and he is a problem solver who enjoys tackling challenging problems. Jun is a team player who always gains the trust of his colleagues. He has worked with Amazon for more than eight years, during which he has held various positions, including Applied Scientist in Product Graph, where he built Amazon's knowledge graph, and Senior Applied Scientist in the same team, where he built the knowledge graph of products. Jun holds a Ph.D. in Computational Biology from Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied from 2008 to 2014. He also holds a B.S. in Cell & Molecular Biology from the University of Science and Technology of China, where he studied from 2004 to 2008. Jun's tech stack includes Research Scientist, ML, and Search, and he has relevant experience of 8.70 years. He is a valuable asset to any team that he is a part of, and he is always willing to go the extra mile to ensure that his work is of the highest quality.