Jeff Dean (ai.google/research/people/jeff) joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Google Senior Fellow and SVP for Google Research. His teams are working on systems for speech recognition, computer vision, language understanding, and various other machine learning tasks. He has co-designed/implemented many generations of Google's crawling, indexing, and query serving systems, and co-designed/implemented major pieces of Google's initial advertising and AdSense for Content systems. He is also a co-designer and co-implementor of Google's distributed computing infrastructure, including the MapReduce, BigTable and Spanner systems, protocol buffers, the open-source TensorFlow system for machine learning, and a variety of internal and external libraries and developer tools.

Jeff received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1996, working with Craig Chambers on whole-program optimization techniques for object-oriented languages. He received a B.S. in computer science & economics from the University of Minnesota in 1990. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), and a winner of the 2012 ACM Prize in Computing."

Doug Eck is a Principal Scientist at Google Research and a research director on the Brain Team. His work lies at the intersection of machine learning and human-computer interaction (HCI). He is also a leader of PAIR (pair.withgoogle.com), a multidisciplinary team that explores the human side of AI through fundamental research, building tools, creating design frameworks, and working with diverse communities. Doug is active in many areas of basic machine learning research, including natural language processing (NLP) and reinforcement learning (RL). He completed his PhD in Computer Science and Cognitive Science at Indiana University in 2000 and went on to a postdoctoral fellowship with Juergen Schmidhuber at IDSIA in Lugano Switzerland.

Katherine Chou is the Sr. Director of Research and Innovations at Google with a specific focus on nurturing scientific and technical breakthroughs with global impact for health, climate change, and advancement of platform technologies for our developers and researchers. Our work is about innovating for a better world. With every new technological advance, we are being given a chance to redesign the future for the better. Our computer vision models can democratize expertise to improve lives, our speech & language models can unlock and enrich people's capabilities, our geospatial models can help improve our environment and mitigate global crises, our multimodal models can discover new knowledge about the world, and so much more. And through thoughtful collaborations, we can learn to effectively integrate these changes back into live products and real-world situations for widespread adoption. We are at the frontier forging this technological shift.

Zoubin Ghahramani is a Distinguished Scientist and Senior Research Director in Google Brain, as well as Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Before joining Google, he was Chief Scientist and VP for AI at Uber. His research focuses on probabilistic approaches to machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has worked on semi-supervised learning and active learning for many years, and he and his coauthors won the 2013 ICML Classic Paper Prize for their 2003 paper on "Semi-supervised learning using Gaussian fields and harmonic functions".

Reporting to the CEO, James focuses on areas that have potential for broad impact on society, ranging from AI, computing infrastructure, the future of work, and sustainability. He is Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company, and is Chair and Director Emeritus of the McKinsey Global Institute.

He was appointed by President Obama as Vice Chair of the White House Global Development Council, and by U.S. Commerce Secretaries to the Digital Economy and National Innovation Boards. He is Vice Chair of the National AI Committee, which advises the President and the National AI Initiative Office.

James is a Visiting Professor at Oxford and a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Committee on Responsible Computing. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of Stanford’s AI Institute and a Distinguished Fellow in Ethics & AI at Oxford. A Rhodes Scholar, He has a DPhil, MSc and MA from Oxford in AI and robotics, mathematics and computer science, and a BSc from the University of Zimbabwe.

Dr. Marian Croak leads the center of expertise on responsible AI within Google Research as a VP. The center is responsible for ensuring Google develops artificial intelligence responsibly and that it has a positive impact. For almost seven years, she’s been a VP at Google working on everything from site reliability engineering to bringing public Wi-Fi to India’s railroads. Marian joined Google in late 2014 after retiring from AT&T as an SVP responsible for advanced research and innovation, and designing and developing one of the world's largest wireless and broadband networks. She managed over 2,000 world-class engineers and computer scientists.

Marian holds over 200 patents, mostly focused on IP technology. Marian has received numerous awards, including the 2013 and 2014 Edison Patent Awards, and was inducted into the Women in Technology International's Hall of Fame in 2013. She is a strong supporter of STEM initiatives, served on many boards including NACME and Catalyst, and personally mentors many individuals in STEM. In 2021, it was announced that Dr. Croak will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Marian attended Princeton University and University of Southern California, where she received her doctorate in quantitative analysis. She is currently a member of the Corporate Advisory Board for the University of Southern California.