Kathy Abbess

PR Director @Apple, WSJ, Reuters alum

PR Director at Apple
(Nov 2016 – Present)

Senior Manager - Data Science and Engineering at Apple | Docker Captain | LinkedIn Learning Instructor

I lead the data science and engineering team at Apple Services Finance. The team focuses on translating business problems and requirements into data products using advanced statistical and machine learning models to support and help Apple leadership make data-driven decisions.

GenAI Leadership @ Apple • Stanford AI • Ex-AWS, Amazon Alexa, Nvidia, Qualcomm • EB-1 Recipient/Mentor • EMNLP 2023 Outstanding Paper Award

• Advise research projects in NLP, Vision, Speech, and Multimodal AI.
• Published research in leading AI venues such as ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, EACL, ECML, WACV, ICASSP, etc.

Software Architect at Apple

Member of the Apple Services Architecture and Efficiency team, working across various Apple online services and infrastructure teams to deliver customer value with most efficient and cost effective ways.

Professional Speaker on Leadership & Decision-Making in Uncertain Times | Best Thought Leadership Speaker 2025 | Best-selling Business Author & Host of Bruce Whitfield’s Business Week

As a dynamic business speaker, I've had the privilege of delivering thought-provoking content to audiences across the globe. I've shared platforms with influential leaders like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Nouriel Roubini, Charlize Theron, and Lord Mervyn King.

My approach to k...

VLSI Talent Sourcer @ Apple | Cutting-edge Silicon Recruitment

Apple Israel is looking for outstanding VLSI Design (DI) and Verification (DV) engineers at all levels of seniority, offering the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies.

As an Apple engineer will work on future SoC / IP, as we build our custom silicon in-house.
I'...