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Sahika Genc is a Principal Applied Scientist for Amazon Search at Amazon. She worked as a senior research scientist in the Artificial Intelligence and Learning Laboratory at the General Electric (GE) Global Research Center from 2006 to 2017. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering: Systems from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2002 and 2006, respectively.

Her research interests are in smart automation, robotics, predictive control and optimization, and reinforcement learning (RL). Currently, she is leading science teams in scalable autonomous driving and automation systems including consumer products such as AWS DeepRacer and Sagemaker RL. At GE Research, she led science teams on healthcare analytics, and collaborated with government organizations and research institutions to develop energy analytics for consumers and utilities.

She has more than 30 patents and 50 conference, journal, and technical report publications. She served in the organizing committees for the American Control Conference in 2014 and 2018. She served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering from 2015-2018. She has been serving in the industrial committee for International Federation of Automatic Control since 2018.