Jun Ma

Leading the search and recommendation team at Walgreens AI-Lab

Jun Ma, Senior Manager at Walgreens AI Lab

Jun Ma is currently the Senior Manager of the Walgreens AI Lab at Walgreens Boots Alliance.1 3 4 In this role, he leads the search and recommendation team, building AI-powered solutions for Walgreens.1

Prior to joining Walgreens, Jun Ma held several positions at Amazon, including Sr. Applied Scientist, Tech Lead, and Science Manager at Amazon Search AI from July 2021 to present.1 He also worked as a Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University from July 2014 to December 2014 and as a Graduate Student at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University from August 2008 to May 2014.1

Jun Ma's research interests include natural language processing (NLP), graph neural networks (GNNs), large language modeling, and knowledge graphs.3 4 He has co-authored several papers on these topics, including "Graph-Aware Language Model Pre-Training on a Large Graph Corpus" published in 2024.2

Jun Ma holds a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.1 He is fluent in Chinese and English.1

Highlights

Feb 19 · ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Graph-Aware Language Model Pre-Training on a Large ... - NCBI

Nov 28 · sciencedirect.com

Artificial intelligence: A powerful paradigm for scientific research

Experience

Senior Manager, Walgreens AI Lab at Walgreens Boots Alliance (April 2023 - Present)

Sr. Applied Scientist (Tech Lead / Science Manager) at Amazon (July 2021 - Present), Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University (July 2014 - December 2014), Research Assistant at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (March 2009 - May 2014), Graduate Student at School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (August 2008 - May 2014)