Blaise Agüera y Arcas

BLAISE AGÜERA Y ARCAS is a VP and Fellow at Google Research, where he leads an organisation working on basic research and applications in AI. He is the inventor of Federated Learning, a privacy-preserving approach to machine learning, and many AI features on Android phones were developed by his team. Blaise also founded Google’s Artists and Machine Intelligence program and has published widely, including essays in Noema and The Economist, as well as authoring two books, Ubi Sunt (2022) and Who Are We Now? (2023). He is a recipient of MIT’s TR35 prize.