Nuno Castro
Nuno is a Data Science leader with 17 years experience in the field. He runs the Machine Learning Solutions Lab UK team at Amazon Web Services. He previously headed the Personalization and Recommendations Data Science teams at Expedia Group, the Search and Sort data science teams at Hotels.com, and the global data science function for the Expedia Business Solutions, through his 8 year tenure at Expedia Group. Before that, he was a Data Scientist at Feedzai, where he performed R&D in big data and machine learning, applied to large scale credit card fraud detection. He was also a Big Data Intern at Siemens Research in Princeton, NJ, where he implemented efficient search algorithms using Hadoop. Nuno obtained a PhD in Machine Learning and Computer Science from the University of Minho, where he researched scalable machine learning algorithms for temporal data. Before, he was with Nokia Siemens as an R&D software engineer. Nuno graduated in Computer Science and Systems Engineering in 2006.