Enes Bilgin works as a Principal AI Engineer and a Tech Lead at Microsoft’s Autonomous Systems division, focusing on Project Bonsai. He is a machine learning and operations research practitioner and researcher and the author of a recent book “Mastering Reinforcement Learning with Python.” He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Boston University and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University. In the past, he worked as a Research Scientist at Amazon and as an Operations Research Scientist at AMD. He also held adjunct faculty positions at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and at the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University.