Colin Russel is a Executive Director of Data Science at The New York Times. He works on the Media Innovations Team, which builds products that use machine learning to automatically create, curate, and optimize the NYTimes’ marketing campaigns on a variety of different platforms. He also works closely with the Digital Ad Products team that uses predictive models for ad targeting that preserves user privacy. Before joining the NYTimes eight years ago, he studied Systems and Control Engineering at Case Western Reserve University before receiving a Masters Degree from Columbia University.