Sonali Son is Founder and CEO of Pallas Analytics. With offices in California and Paris, her practice is dedicated to riding the gap between US and EU AI businesses. She has over 15 years of data science technical, engineering and executive leadership experience at Amazon, Pinterest, Snapchat and Microsoft. She has built mobile advertising machine learning systems and auction/pricing models at Pinterest and Snap, and was one of the first data scientists at AWS (Amazon Cloud Services) where she won Amazon’s “Show me the money” award for her cloud network redundancy models. She has deep experience and outstanding capabilities in data extraction, cleaning, validation, and construction on a variety of systems to translate the data complexities clients face into simplified, actionable solutions. At Snapchat, she developed the Responsible ML engineering guidelines which serves as the basis for her new technical venture, Pallas Analytics. She is a member of the International Association of Algorithmic Auditors and a Certified AI and Algorithms Auditor.

Ms. Son is a member of the UCLA Board of Directors for the Data Theory Department and holds 2 patents in machine learning. She holds an BS and MS degree from Cornell University in Economics and International Development and attended the University of Washington School of Law.