Fernando C. Pereira

Bio

I am Google Fellow at Google DeepMind, working to put generative AI into practice. Before that, I led language AI and ML teams at Google Research from 2008 to 2022. Before Google, I had been chair of the Computer and Information Science department of the University of Pennsylvania, head of the Machine Learning and Information Retrieval department at AT&T Labs, and had research and management positions at SRI International. I have a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, over 120 research publications on computational linguistics, machine learning, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and logic programming, and several patents.  I am a fellow of AAAI, ACM, ACL, and AAAS; member of the American Philosophical Society, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the National Academy of Engineering; and past president of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Research Interests

• Language AI

• Machine learning

• Bioinformatics

I'm also broadly interested in linguistics, cognitive science, biology, and programming languages, and I've published in or around some of those areas.

Publications

Other Interests

• Skiing

• Digital audio

• Biology

• Geology