Joseph Sirosh

Joseph Sirosh is the corporate vice president of the Information Management and Machine Learning (IMML) team in the Cloud and Enterprise group at Microsoft Corp. Sirosh and his IMML team have shipped public preview versions of Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, Azure Stream Analytics and Azure Data Factory. His team is also involved with the agreement to acquire Revolution Analytics, the leading provider of software and services for the R programming language. Sirosh joined Microsoft in fall 2013 from Amazon.com Inc. where he was vice president for the Global Inventory Platform and chief technology officer of the core retail business. In this role he had responsibility for the science and software behind Amazon’s supply chain and order fulfillment systems, as well as the central Machine Learning group, which he built and led. During his nine years at Amazon, he managed a variety of teams including forecasting, inventory, supply chain and fulfillment, fraud prevention systems, data warehouse, and a novel data-driven seller lending business. Before joining Amazon, he worked for Fair Isaac Corp. as vice president of research and development. He is passionate about machine learning and its applications and has been active in the field since 1990.