Aston Zhang is a senior scientist at Amazon Web Services AI. His current research interests focus on efficient and robust methods for machine learning and natural language processing. He received the ICLR Outstanding Paper Award (2021), the ACM Ubicomp Distinguished Paper Award (2018), and the ACM SenSys Best Paper Award Nomination (2017). His open-source textbook, Dive into Deep Learning, has been adopted worldwide. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.