Blaise Agüera y Arcas
is Principal Scientist at Google where he leads a team focusing on
Machine Intelligence for mobile devices - including both basic research
and new products. His group works extensively with deep neural nets for
machine perception, distributed learning, and agents, as well as
collaborating with academic institutions on connectomics research.
Until 2014 he was a
Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, where he worked in a variety of
roles, from inventor to strategist, and led teams with strengths in
interaction design, prototyping, computer vision and machine
vision, augmented reality, wearable computing and graphics. Blaise has
given TED talks on Seadragon and Photosynth (2007, 2012) and Bing
Maps (2010). In 2008, he was awarded MIT’s prestigious TR35 (“35 under
35”).
