Welcome

I’m a Staff Applied Scientist at Uber in NYC where I build ML recommendation and targeting systems. I hold a Ph.D. in Statistics from Boston University where I studied graph embeddings and inference.

Machine Learning Topics that Excite Me

• Recommendation Systems
• Causal Machine Learning
• Graph Embeddings and Inference

Experiences & Education

• [2022–Present] Staff Applied Scientist @ Uber
• [2017–2022] Ph.D. | M.A. in Stat @ Boston University
• [2014–2017] B.S. in Math @ Lafayette College

Contact

• benjamin.draves@gmail.com
• github.com/dravesb
• LinkedIn
• Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

🗞️ News 🗞️

• May ’26 – Co-organized a CausalML reading group at Uber with Scientists and Engineers across multiple organizations.
• Apr ’26 – Presented at University of Chicago’s Data Science Institute on Ranking Causal Effects and applied topics in CausalML.
• Jan ’26 – Spoke to a group of undergraduates at Lafayette College on careers in ML and AI.
• Sep ’25 – Promoted to Staff Applied Scientist focusing on Personalization, Targeting, & GenAI applications in CRM.