Matt Wood

Matthew Wood (born 4 July 1979) is the general manager and director of Amazon Web Services, where he is responsible for driving the product, services and technology vision of the cloud computing business within the company, including product development, go to market strategy and product marketing. Wood manages the AWS roadmap, and has overseen the development of many significant new services and features at AWS, including AWS Lambda,^[1] AWS IoT,^[2] Amazon Kinesis,^[3] and Amazon Machine Learning.^[4] He also leads the company's efforts in artificial intelligence and deep learning, including Amazon Lex, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Polly, and contributions to the open source deep learning engine, MXNet, which powers AI services at AWS. ^[5]

He is a common keynote speaker at AWS events and the primary spokesperson for the organization.

Education

Wood received a Ph.D. in bioinformatics from the University of Nottingham in Nottingham, United Kingdom supervised by Jonathan Hirst.^[6] He applied machine learning models, new sequence representation and neural networks to protein sequencing problems, publishing a number of novel methods including the highest predictive accuracy for secondary structure prediction available at the time.^[7]

Career

Before joining Amazon Web Services,^[8] Dr. Wood worked on the Human Genome Project, including the Ensembl genome browser.^[9] He was the Head of Production Software at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and part of the team who pioneered the production application of next-generation DNA sequencing at the center, with DNA sequence analysis contributing to the 1000 Genomes Project, and the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium. He would later bring the 1000 Genomes Project data as a public dataset to the Amazon Web Services cloud.^[10]

Dr. Wood also spent time at the Weill Cornell Medical School, and the University of Nottingham Medical School as a medical student.

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