Amazon ML chief Neil Lawrence leaves to join Cambridge
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One of Amazon’s most senior computer scientists has left the company to join Cambridge University as its inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning.
Neil Lawrence, who has served as director of machine learning at Amazon UK since 2016, was appointed after an “international search”, according to the university.