People
People at Amazon (AWS)
39 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document a current or earlier role at Amazon (AWS); 19 of them in a current role. Current roles are listed first, then alphabetically. Each profile covers public professional work only. This is not a ranking.
Abdul Fatir Ansari
Senior Applied Scientist, AWS AI
Senior Applied Scientist at AWS and first author of the Chronos and Chronos-2 time series forecasting models
Andrea Vedaldi
Amazon Scholar, Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) lab (since September 2026)
Oxford professor who co-leads the Visual Geometry Group; Amazon Scholar; co-author of DINOv3 and VGGT
Andy Jassy
President and Chief Executive Officer
Founder of Amazon Web Services and Amazon's President and CEO, building the cloud and AI that power invention
Angjoo Kanazawa
Amazon Scholar, Frontier AI & Robotics team
Berkeley EECS associate professor whose lab builds the open-source nerfstudio and gsplat libraries
Antje Barth
Member of Technical Staff — AI Product & Developer Experience
Member of Technical Staff at Amazon AGI; co-author of Generative AI on AWS and Data Science on AWS
Clare Liguori
Senior Principal Software Engineer, AWS Agentic AI (at Amazon since 2014)
AWS Senior Principal Software Engineer on Kiro and Strands Agents; core maintainer of the MCP spec
Emily Webber
Principal machine learning specialist solutions architect, AWS Trainium team
Principal ML specialist solutions architect on the AWS Trainium team at Annapurna Labs; author
Jeff Barr
VP and Chief Evangelist, AWS
VP and Chief Evangelist at AWS; started the AWS News Blog in 2004
Jeff Bezos
Founder and Executive Chair
Founder and Executive Chair of Amazon; co-founder and co-CEO of AI company Project Prometheus
Jitendra Malik
VP and Distinguished Scientist, Amazon FAR lab (partial industrial leave from Berkeley)
Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley; VP and Distinguished Scientist at Amazon's FAR lab
Lorenzo Stella
Computer scientist
AWS computer scientist; second author of Chronos and a co-author of GluonTS and Chronos-2
Matt Garman
Chief Executive Officer, Amazon Web Services
CEO of Amazon Web Services since June 2024; first product manager for Amazon EC2
Pieter Abbeel
Amazon Scholar (2024–)
UC Berkeley professor and Robot Learning Lab director; Amazon Scholar; former OpenAI research scientist
Rajeev Rastogi
Vice President, Machine Learning at Amazon India
Vice President, Machine Learning at Amazon India; previously vice president at Yahoo Labs
Stefano Soatto
Vice president and distinguished scientist, AWS Agentic AI
Vice president and distinguished scientist in AWS Agentic AI; UCLA professor of computer science
Swabha Swayamdipta
Amazon Scholar
USC Gabilan Assistant Professor and Amazon Scholar; first author of Dataset Cartography
Swami Sivasubramanian
Vice President of Agentic AI, AWS
Vice President of Agentic AI at AWS; co-author of Amazon's 2007 Dynamo paper
Werner Vogels
Chief Technology Officer, Amazon.com
Chief Technology Officer of Amazon.com; co-author of the 2007 Dynamo paper
Abdelrahman Mohamed
Principal scientist manager, Alexa AI team (earlier role)
Speech researcher; co-author of wav2vec 2.0 and HuBERT at Facebook AI Research
Adam Selipsky
Chief Executive Officer, AWS (until June 2024) (earlier role)
Former CEO of Amazon Web Services; member of Circle's board of directors since July 2025
Alex Smola
VP / Distinguished Scientist (2016–2023) (earlier role)
Co-founder and CEO of Boson AI; co-author of Dive into Deep Learning; former VP at AWS
Allie K. Miller
Global Head of Machine Learning for Startups and Venture Capital (earlier role)
AI business advisor and educator who writes the AI with ALLIE newsletter and teaches AI courses
Andreas C. Müller
Machine Learning Scientist (2013–2014) (earlier role)
Core developer and co-maintainer of scikit-learn; Principal Research SDE at Microsoft
Anima Anandkumar
Principal scientist (earlier role)
Bren Professor at Caltech; Fourier Neural Operator co-author; former NVIDIA senior director of AI research
Bratin Saha
Vice President and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Data Infrastructure (earlier role)
Former AWS vice president for AI, machine learning and data infrastructure services
Charlie Bell
Senior Vice President (earlier role)
Former AWS senior vice president and Microsoft security executive; Tenable board member since October 2026
David Talby
Built and ran software platforms and teams to scale Amazon's financial systems (earlier role)
CEO of John Snow Labs and creator of the open-source Spark NLP library; formerly at Microsoft and Amazon
Eric Hartford
Former employee; the role is not stated (earlier role)
Founder of Quixi.AI and creator of the Dolphin and Samantha open models; formerly at Microsoft and AWS
Eugene Yan
Principal Applied Scientist (earlier role)
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; former Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon
Julien Simon
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Evangelist for EMEA (earlier role)
AI Operating Partner at Fortino Capital; former Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face and Arcee AI
Michael I. Jordan
Amazon Scholar (2018–2024) (earlier role)
Co-author of the Ray and latent Dirichlet allocation papers; UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Michael J. Black
Distinguished Amazon Scholar (earlier role)
Co-author of the SMPL-X body model; co-founder of Body Labs; named a Distinguished Amazon Scholar in 2017
Mu Li
Principal scientist for machine learning, leading a team working primarily on Apache MXNet (earlier role)
Co-founder of Boson AI; co-author of Dive into Deep Learning; led an AWS team working on Apache MXNet
Rahul Patil
Senior engineering leadership roles (earlier role)
Chief Technology Officer at Anthropic; previously CTO of Stripe
Rohit Prasad
Senior Vice President and Head Scientist for Alexa and Artificial General Intelligence (earlier role)
CEO of Boston Dynamics since October 2026; previously head scientist for Alexa and AGI at Amazon
Sarthak Jain
Researcher on foundation models for text (earlier role)
Member of Profluent's machine learning team and first author of the Profluent-E1 protein encoder models
Tong He
Senior Applied Scientist (from 2018) (earlier role)
Co-author of the XGBoost R package; committer on DGL, GluonCV and Apache MXNet; former AWS applied scientist
Vasi Philomin
Vice President of Generative AI (earlier role)
Executive Vice President and Head of Data and AI at Siemens; former AWS Vice President of Generative AI
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