Ryan Saxe

Build to learn.

Write to understand.

I design large and interpretable ML/AI systems. I find an odd amount of joy in explaining complex concepts in simple ways.

Director, Global Data & Analytics Current
AB-InBev · Nov 2024 – Present

Head of Science and Engineering. Responsible for the technology behind all global analytics products.

Principal Data Scientist, Global Data & Analytics
AB-InBev · Jan 2023 – Nov 2024

Tech lead for all commercial applications of machine learning (sales, marketing, and finance).

Senior Manager, Global Data & Analytics
AB-InBev · Mar 2021 – Jan 2023

Tech lead Manager for a team dedicated to ML solutions for marketing efficacy and automated spend allocation.

Senior Research Scientist, Ecommerce
PepsiCo · Oct 2020 – Mar 2021

Research in Graph Neural Networks for product introduction, embedding regularization techniques, and transparent neural architectures. Published a patent at the intersection of contrastive loss and anomaly detection.

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Data Scientist, Ecommerce
PepsiCo · Jul 2019 – Oct 2020

Built an internal API for training deep learning systems with economic priors. Designed a multi-modal Graph Embedding model for product similarity.

Master of Science in Computer Science
New York University · Sep 2017 – May 2019

Research in Machine Vision for Gait Recognition and Classification of Pathological Disorders at the RiskEcon Lab for Decision Metrics.

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Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics & Computer Science
New York University · Sep 2013 – May 2017