People
People at Google (Alphabet)
120 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document a current or earlier role at Google (Alphabet); 25 of them in a current role. Current roles are listed first, then alphabetically. Each profile covers public professional work only. This is not a ranking.
Abhimanyu Das
Principal Research Scientist, heading work on predictive models for structured data
Google Principal Research Scientist leading structured-data models such as TimesFM; TimesFM paper first author
Adam Paszke
Research Scientist
First author of the PyTorch paper and a named author of JAX; research scientist at Google
Alexei Baevski
Company listed on Baevski's GitHub profile
First author of wav2vec 2.0 and data2vec at Facebook AI; fairseq co-author
Amir Hertz
Research scientist
Research scientist at Google; first author of Prompt-to-Prompt image editing with cross-attention control
Cordelia Schmid
Joint appointment with Google Research (since 2018)
Inria research director in the WILLOW team, with a joint appointment at Google Research since 2018
David Patterson
Google Fellow
Google Fellow and UC Berkeley professor emeritus; co-author of Google TPU papers and MLPerf Training
Demis Hassabis
Chief Scientist
DeepMind co-founder and Nobel laureate whose teams built AlphaGo and AlphaFold
Fabian Pedregosa
Research scientist, Gemini Core team
Research scientist at Google on the Gemini Core team; led scikit-learn's first public release in 2010
George Halal
Machine learning software engineer
Co-author of Contextual AI's open Reranker v2 models; machine learning software engineer at Google
Jake VanderPlas
Company listed on Jake VanderPlas's GitHub profile
Named author of JAX who has written several of its design proposals
Josh Woodward
VP, Google Labs, Gemini app & AI Studio
Google VP leading Google Labs, the Gemini app and AI Studio
Koray Kavukcuoglu
Chief AI Architect
SVP of Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect at Google; co-author of the DQN and WaveNet papers
Martín Abadi
At Google since November 2014
At Google since 2014; first author of the TensorFlow papers; emeritus at UC Santa Cruz
Matthew Johnson
Research scientist (GitHub bio "research scientist @ Google Brain")
Named author of JAX and co-author of the SysML 2018 paper on an early JAX; research scientist at Google
Matthew Watson
Company listed on Matthew Watson's GitHub profile
Named author of KerasHub, the pretrained-model library for Keras, and co-author of its getting-started guide
Michael Collins
Research scientist
Natural language processing researcher and research scientist at Google; former MIT faculty member
Nanyun (Violet) Peng
Senior Staff Research Scientist
Google Senior Staff Research Scientist and UCLA associate professor (on leave) working on creative NLP
Peter Hawkins
JAX (GitHub bio "JAX @ Google")
Named author of JAX, the Python library for accelerator-oriented array computation
Pushmeet Kohli
Chief Scientist
Vice President at Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Google Cloud; AlphaFold co-author
Rajat Sen
Research Scientist
Google Research scientist and one of the creators of TimesFM, the time-series forecasting foundation model
RJ Skerry-Ryan
Researcher listed in Google Research's people directory (publications 2017–2025)
Google researcher; co-author of Tacotron and Tacotron 2 and first author of Tacotron prosody transfer
Saurabh Tiwary
Vice President, Technical Fellow, Google DeepMind (page title); Vice President and General Manager of Cloud AI (bio)
Google vice president; former Microsoft CVP and Technical Fellow who led the Microsoft Turing group
Sergey Brin
Member of the Board of Directors (Executive Committee)
Google co-founder and Alphabet director; listed author on the Gemini and Gemini 2.5 technical reports
Sundar Pichai
Chief Executive Officer
CEO of Google and Alphabet who helped build Chrome and is leading Google into the Gemini era of AI
Thomas Kurian
CEO, Google Cloud
CEO of Google Cloud, which offers Gemini Enterprise and Google's agent platform to businesses
Aidan Gomez
Work on the Transformer paper performed while at Google Brain (earlier role)
Co-founder and CEO of Cohere; co-author of the Transformer paper, written while at Google Brain
Alex Smola
Visiting Scientist (2012–2014) (earlier role)
Co-founder and CEO of Boson AI; co-author of Dive into Deep Learning; former VP at AWS
Andrew Ng
Founding lead of the Google Brain team (earlier role)
Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Stanford adjunct professor, and founding lead of the Google Brain team
Angjoo Kanazawa
Research Scientist (earlier role)
Berkeley EECS associate professor whose lab builds the open-source nerfstudio and gsplat libraries
Aran Komatsuzaki
Intern (2022) (earlier role)
Co-author of the GPT-J-6B open model; first author of the Sparse Upcycling paper from Google Research
Arvind Jain
Distinguished engineer leading teams in Search, Maps and YouTube (more than a decade) (earlier role)
Founder and CEO of Glean, the enterprise AI platform; earlier co-founded Rubrik and led teams at Google
Ashish Vaswani
Listed with a Google Brain affiliation on 2017–2018 papers (earlier role)
CEO of Essential AI, maker of the open Rnj-1 models; first-listed author of the Transformer paper
Azalia Mirhoseini
Industry AI lab role (earlier role)
Stanford assistant professor directing Scaling Intelligence; co-founder of Ricursive Intelligence
Barret Zoph
Staff Research Scientist (earlier role)
First author of neural architecture search at Google Brain; earlier VP of Research (Post-Training) at OpenAI
Ben Mann
Software engineer (six years, per Mann's site) (earlier role)
Anthropic co-founder; co-author of the GPT-3 paper and of Anthropic's RLHF and Constitutional AI papers
Ben Mildenhall
Research scientist (2021 to 2023) (earlier role)
Co-founder of World Labs and first author of the NeRF paper on neural radiance fields for view synthesis
Bilawal Sidhu
Senior Product Manager (earlier role)
Tech creator covering AI, AR/VR, and robotics; technology curator and host for TED
Brandon Yang
Previous affiliation (earlier role)
Co-founder of Cartesia; works on systems for machine learning, previously at Google Brain
Cassie Kozyrkov
Chief Decision Scientist (earlier role)
CEO of Kozyr and author of the Decision Intelligence newsletter on AI and data-driven decisions
Chelsea Finn
Research Scientist (2018–2024) (earlier role)
Stanford assistant professor who runs the IRIS lab; co-founder of Physical Intelligence and co-author of π0
Cho-Jui Hsieh
Visiting scholar (from summer 2018) (earlier role)
UCLA associate professor of computer science; co-author of the LAMB and Lion optimizer papers
Chris Lattner
TensorFlow infrastructure lead, including hardware support, runtime and MLIR (August 2017 to January 2020) (earlier role)
Co-founder of Modular, maker of the MAX inference framework and the Mojo language
Chris Olah
Worked at Google Brain (earlier role)
Anthropic co-founder working on reverse engineering neural networks; previously led interpretability at OpenAI
Colin Raffel
Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist, and Staff Research Scientist (2017–2021) (earlier role)
University of Toronto associate professor and Hugging Face faculty researcher; first author of the T5 paper
Dani Valevski
Listed with Google Research as co-first author of GameNGen (2024) (earlier role)
Co-first author of GameNGen, a diffusion model that simulates DOOM in real time, and first author of UniTune
Daniel De Freitas
Co-author of the LaMDA paper (work done while at Google, per the paper's footnote) (earlier role)
Co-founder of Character.AI; led the development of the Meena and LaMDA dialog models at Google
Dario Amodei
Deep learning researcher (earlier role)
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, a physicist turned AI leader behind Claude and safety research
David Bau
Led the team that created Google Talk; contributed to Google Image Search (earlier role)
Northeastern professor studying neural-network internals; Bau's lab launched the NDIF project
David Grangier
Machine learning research (from 2018) (earlier role)
Machine learning researcher at Apple; co-author of the fairseq sequence modeling toolkit
David Ha
Research Scientist; led a Google Brain research team (earlier role)
Co-founder and CEO of Sakana AI; former Google research scientist and co-author of World Models
Denny Britz
Listed with a Google Brain affiliation on the 2017 NMT architecture paper (earlier role)
First-listed author of a 2017 Google Brain study of NMT architectures; contributor to its TensorFlow framework
Diogo Almeida
Past role listed on TypeSafe's team page (earlier role)
Founder and CEO of TypeSafe AI; co-author of OpenAI's InstructGPT paper on training with human feedback
Elad Gil
Former product role working on ads targeting, mobile, and AI (earlier role)
Investor and co-host of No Priors, a podcast about AI, machine learning, tech, and startups
Fei-Fei Li
Vice President at Google and Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud (2017–2018) (earlier role)
Co-founder and CEO of World Labs, Stanford Sequoia Professor, and principal investigator of ImageNet
Francis deSouza
Chief Operating Officer and President of Security Products (earlier role)
Chief Executive Officer of Scale AI since August 2026; previously Google Cloud COO and Illumina CEO
Geoffrey Hinton
Vice President and Engineering Fellow (half-time, 2013–2023) (earlier role)
2024 Nobel laureate in Physics; University of Toronto emeritus professor and former Google Vice President
Graham Taylor
Visiting Faculty, Google Brain (2018–2019) (earlier role)
University of Guelph professor and Vector Institute faculty member building deep learning for biodiversity
Heiga Zen
Speech team (July 2011 to July 2018), then Brain team from August 2018 (earlier role)
Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind; WaveNet co-author and an original author of HTS speech synthesis
Hyung Won Chung
Researcher (T5X, PaLM, Flan-PaLM and Flan-T5) (earlier role)
Researcher on reasoning and agents, formerly at Google Brain; first author of the Flan-T5 scaling paper
Ian Goodfellow
Research scientist (earlier role)
First author of the Generative Adversarial Networks paper and co-author of the Deep Learning textbook
Illia Polosukhin
Work on the Transformer paper performed while at Google Research (earlier role)
Founder of NEAR AI; co-author of the Transformer paper, written while at Google Research
Jakob Uszkoreit
Software Engineer, Natural Language Understanding (earlier role)
Co-founder and CEO of Inceptive; co-author of the Transformer paper during Google's language research
James Bradbury
Listed with Google as an author of the 2019 PyTorch paper (earlier role)
Named author of JAX and co-author of the original PyTorch paper
Jason Wei
Research Scientist (earlier role)
AI researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs; first author of the chain-of-thought prompting paper
Jason Weston
Research scientist (earlier role)
Research scientist at Meta; first author of Memory Networks and co-author of ParlAI and Self-Rewarding LMs
Jeff Dean
Several leadership roles from 1999, most recently Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind and Google Research (earlier role)
Co-founder of Discovery Loop; former Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research
Jeff Su
Product marketer (joined 2016; worked on Google Ads) (earlier role)
Creator of videos, courses, and a weekly AI tips newsletter on AI and productivity tools
Jeffrey Morgan
Previous role (listed on GitHub profile) (earlier role)
Works on Ollama, an open-source tool for running open models on your own machine
Jitendra Malik
Visiting Research Scientist (2015–2016) (earlier role)
Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley; VP and Distinguished Scientist at Amazon's FAR lab
John Duchi
Software Engineer (2007–2008); Research Intern/Engineer, summers 2009–2014 (earlier role)
Stanford associate professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering; first author of the Adagrad paper
John X. Morris
Research program participant at Google Brain (earlier role)
AI researcher (Jack Morris) and second author of the Nomic Embed technical report; creator of TextAttack
Jonathan Ho
Listed with Google Research, Brain Team on Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance and as co-first author of Imagen Video (2022) (earlier role)
First author of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and of Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance
Jonathan Shen
Software Engineer (Tacotron 2 blog byline, December 2017) (earlier role)
First author of the Tacotron 2 text-to-speech paper, written as a software engineer at Google
Josh Gordon
Developer Advocate for TensorFlow (earlier role)
Wrote the TensorFlow Hub launch post as Developer Advocate for TensorFlow, and later TensorFlow release posts
Justin Fu
Student researcher and research intern (2018–2019) (earlier role)
Research scientist at Waymo Research and lead developer of the open-source Waymax driving simulator
Kai-Fu Lee
Global Vice President (earlier role)
Founder and CEO of 01.AI; developed CMU's Sphinx speech recognizer; earlier at Apple, Microsoft and Google
Kevin Scott
Leadership positions in search and ads engineering; oversaw mobile ads engineering (earlier role)
Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft; earlier led engineering and operations at LinkedIn
Laurence Moroney
Led AI Advocacy (earlier role)
Director of AI at Arm; author and educator who led AI Advocacy at Google
Liam Fedus
Author affiliated with Google on the Switch Transformers paper (2021) (earlier role)
On the Periodic Labs team; first author of Switch Transformers; in OpenAI o1 reasoning research leadership
Łukasz Kaiser
Listed with a Google Brain affiliation on 2017–2018 papers (earlier role)
OpenAI researcher; co-author of the Transformer paper and the TensorFlow white paper
Margaret Mitchell
Staff Research Scientist; founded and co-led Google's Ethical AI group (earlier role)
Researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face; first author of Model Cards for Model Reporting
Matthew Zeiler
Intern (the ADADELTA work was done during the internship) (earlier role)
Clarifai founder named SVP, Research at Nebius in May 2026; author of the ADADELTA paper
Mazin Gilbert
Director of Engineering for Google Distributed Cloud AI/ML (earlier role)
Executive Director of the Agentic AI Foundation at the Linux Foundation; IEEE Fellow
Michele Catasta
Head of Applied Research, working on LLMs for code generation (earlier role)
President of Replit, where Catasta led the Replit Agent projects; former Google X applied research head
Michelle Zatlyn
Earlier position (before co-founding Cloudflare) (earlier role)
Co-founder and President of Cloudflare; co-author with Matthew Prince of Cloudflare's annual founders' letters
Mustafa Suleyman
Vice President of AI Product Management and AI Policy (earlier role)
Co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, now CEO of Microsoft AI pursuing humanist superintelligence
Neil Zeghidour
Research Scientist, Google Research (blog bylines, 2021 and 2022) (earlier role)
First author of SoundStream and co-author of AudioLM at Google Research; Audio Research Advisor at Kyutai
Nicholas Carlini
Research scientist (2018–2023) (earlier role)
Research scientist at Anthropic working on machine learning security; formerly at Google Brain and DeepMind
Nick Frosst
Listed with a Google Brain affiliation on papers from 2017 and 2019 (earlier role)
Co-founder of Cohere; co-author with Geoffrey Hinton of capsule-network research at Google Brain
Nikhil Thorat
Co-creator of TensorFlow.js and Know Your Data (earlier role)
Co-creator of TensorFlow.js at Google Brain and co-founder of Lilac AI; now at Anthropic
Niki Parmar
Listed with Google Research (2017) and Google Brain (2018) affiliations on papers (earlier role)
Co-author of the Transformer paper and first-listed author of Image Transformer, both from Google
Niko Grupen
Researcher in reinforcement learning and multi-agent systems (earlier role)
Head of Applied Research at Harvey; lead byline on the Legal Agent Benchmark (LAB) announcement
Noam Shazeer
Listed with a Google Brain affiliation on 2017–2018 papers (earlier role)
Vice President at Google DeepMind; co-author of the Transformer paper and the mixture-of-experts layer
Olivier Chafik
Software engineer (YouTube for iOS, Swiffy, AdSense) (earlier role)
MCP TypeScript SDK maintainer; added Jinja chat templates and tool calling to llama.cpp
Omar Sanseviero
Software Engineer and Product Manager (Google Assistant; 20% product manager for TensorFlow Graphics) (earlier role)
Developer Experience Lead at Google DeepMind, working on Gemma launches and developer guides
Oriol Vinyals
Listed with a Google affiliation on the 2014 sequence-to-sequence paper (earlier role)
Vice President at Google DeepMind; co-author of sequence-to-sequence learning and the TensorFlow white paper
Pete Warden
Founding member of the TensorFlow team (earlier role)
CEO of Useful Sensors, founding member of the TensorFlow team, and co-author of TinyML and Moonshine
Quoc Le
Listed with Google and Google Brain affiliations on 2014–2017 papers (earlier role)
Co-author of the sequence-to-sequence, GNMT, and neural architecture search papers at Google
Rajat Monga
Listed with Google Research (2015) and Google Brain (2016) affiliations on the TensorFlow papers (earlier role)
Co-author of the TensorFlow white paper and the TensorFlow system paper from Google Brain
Robert Brennan
Engineer on Google Search answer extraction (earlier role)
CEO of OpenHands (All Hands AI), the open-source platform for coding agents
Ron Mokady
Spent the 2021 and 2022 summers at Google during PhD studies (earlier role)
VP of Research at BRIA AI; co-author of Prompt-to-Prompt and first author of Null-text Inversion
Ruoming Pang
Listed with Google Inc. as an author of the Conformer paper (2020) (earlier role)
Overall lead of Apple's 2024 foundation language models and corresponding author of AXLearn; now at Meta
Samy Bengio
Research Scientist in Machine Learning (2007–2021) (earlier role)
Senior Director of AI and Machine Learning Research at Apple; sponsor of the MLX library
Sara Hooker
Author affiliated with Google Research, Brain Team, on the 2020 essay The Hardware Lottery (earlier role)
Co-founder and CEO of Adaption; author of The Hardware Lottery and last author of the Aya model paper
Shixiang Shane Gu
Founding member of the Google Brain Robotics team (earlier role)
Senior staff research scientist at Google DeepMind on Gemini; co-author of Gumbel-Softmax and zero-shot CoT
Shunyu Yao
Student Researcher (earlier role)
First author of ReAct, Tree of Thoughts and the τ-bench agent benchmark; language-agent researcher
Sridhar Ramaswamy
Led Google's advertising products over a 15-year tenure (earlier role)
Chief Executive Officer of Snowflake since February 2024; co-founder of Neeva
Thibault Sottiaux
Software Engineer (earlier role)
Leads Codex, OpenAI's software engineering agent, after guiding Gemini human data work at Google DeepMind
Tim Davis
Product manager working on AI systems in Google Brain (past) (earlier role)
Co-founder of Modular, makers of Mojo and MAX; SVP and GM of Modular at Qualcomm, which acquired it in 2026
Timnit Gebru
Co-lead of the Ethical AI research team (earlier role)
Founder and executive director of DAIR; first author of Datasheets for Datasets
Tomasz Tunguz
Product manager, AdWords (earlier role)
General Partner at Theory Ventures who writes a daily blog on AI, SaaS metrics, and venture capital
Tony Gentilcore
Engineer on web search and founder and lead of the Chrome Speed Team (earlier role)
Co-founder of Glean and its Product Engineering lead; previously founded Google's Chrome Speed Team
Tsung-Yi Lin
Member of the Brain Team, Google Research (earlier role)
Principal research scientist at NVIDIA Research; led the creation of the COCO dataset; Cosmos co-author
Vikash Kumar
Research Scientist, Google Brain (Feb 2018 – Aug 2019) (earlier role)
Co-founder and CEO of Myolab.ai and CMU adjunct professor; lead creator of MyoSuite and RoboHive
Xingyao Wang
Intern working on multimodal LLM pre-training (2023) (earlier role)
Co-founder and Chief AI Officer of All Hands AI; first author of the OpenHands and CodeAct papers
Yangqing Jia
Research Scientist (earlier role)
Creator of Caffe, co-creator of ONNX and co-lead of PyTorch 1.0; founder and CEO of Intent Lab
Yoav Shoham
Principal Scientist (earlier role)
Co-founder and chairman of AI21 Labs; professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford
Yonghui Wu
First author of Google's 2016 GNMT paper (earlier role)
First author of the paper on Google's Neural Machine Translation system (GNMT); co-author of Lingvo
Yuxin Wu
Worked on foundation models at Google Brain (earlier role)
Creator of Detectron2; builds foundation models at Moonshot AI; formerly at Google Brain and FAIR
Zhilin Yang
Worked at Google Brain with Quoc V. Le (earlier role)
Co-first author of XLNet and Transformer-XL; earlier worked at Google Brain and Meta AI
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