Joseph Sirosh, PhD

Dr. Joseph Sirosh has served as a member of Absci’s board of directors since January 2022. Dr. Sirosh has served as Vice President of Amazon’s Alexa Shopping group since October 2022. Previously, Dr. Sirosh served as the Chief Technology Officer of Compass, Inc. from December 2018 to August 2022 and held various positions at the Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) from July 2013 to December 2018, including Chief Technology Officer of Artificial Intelligence.

During his tenure at Microsoft, Dr. Sirosh led product and engineering teams with responsibility for the enterprise database, Big Data, and machine learning products. Prior to Microsoft, Dr. Sirosh served as a Vice President of Technology at Amazon.Com, Inc., from December 2004 to July 2013, where he built the machine learning and Transaction Risk Management teams. Dr. Sirosh holds a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and an MS in Computer Science and a PhD in Neural Networks from the University of Texas at Austin.