Full Name
Yossi Matias
Job Title
Vice President & Head of Google Research
Company
Google
Brief Biography
Yossi Matias is Vice President, Google, and the Head of Google Research.
For the past two decades, Yossi Matias has been a key figure in Google’s executive technology leadership. Today, as GM of Google Research, Yossi leads pioneering global research teams at the forefront of science and technology, driving breakthrough research through the magic cycle to real-world impact on diverse areas. From foundational machine learning, algorithms, and computing systems to AI for societal impact in health, education and planetary intelligence; and from foundational advancements in generative AI to quantum computing and advancing science.
Recent research breakthroughs include speculative decoding, generative UI, genAI factuality, AI Co-Scientist, Earth AI, Quantum Echo algorithm, DeepSomatic, MedGemma, Flood Forecasting, FireSat, LearnLM, Empirical Research Assistance, Gemini for Science.
Yossi was previously on Google Search leadership for over a decade, driving strategic features and technologies (including Google Trends and Autocomplete) and pioneered Conversational AI innovations to help transform the phone experience and help remove barriers of modality and languages. He was also the founding lead of Google center in Israel and supported other global sites. During his tenure at Google Yossi founded and spearheaded initiatives such as Google's AI for Social Good, Crisis Resilience, Google for Startups Accelerator, social and cultural initiatives seeding Google Arts & Culture, and programs fostering startups, sustainability, and AI literacy for youth.
Prior to Google Yossi was on the Computer Science faculty at Tel Aviv University, a visiting professor at Stanford, and a Research Scientist at Bell Labs. He’s published over 200 papers and is the inventor of over 80 patents. He pioneered some of the early technologies for internet privacy, contextual search, and the effective analysis of Big Data. He is a recipient of the Gödel Prize, an ACM Fellow, and a recipient of the ACM Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for seminal work on streaming algorithms, data sketches, and large-scale data analytics
Yossi has a track record of impact-driven breakthrough research and innovation, and extensive product leadership, transforming products and advancing AI to help address global challenges.
For the past two decades, Yossi Matias has been a key figure in Google’s executive technology leadership. Today, as GM of Google Research, Yossi leads pioneering global research teams at the forefront of science and technology, driving breakthrough research through the magic cycle to real-world impact on diverse areas. From foundational machine learning, algorithms, and computing systems to AI for societal impact in health, education and planetary intelligence; and from foundational advancements in generative AI to quantum computing and advancing science.
Recent research breakthroughs include speculative decoding, generative UI, genAI factuality, AI Co-Scientist, Earth AI, Quantum Echo algorithm, DeepSomatic, MedGemma, Flood Forecasting, FireSat, LearnLM, Empirical Research Assistance, Gemini for Science.
Yossi was previously on Google Search leadership for over a decade, driving strategic features and technologies (including Google Trends and Autocomplete) and pioneered Conversational AI innovations to help transform the phone experience and help remove barriers of modality and languages. He was also the founding lead of Google center in Israel and supported other global sites. During his tenure at Google Yossi founded and spearheaded initiatives such as Google's AI for Social Good, Crisis Resilience, Google for Startups Accelerator, social and cultural initiatives seeding Google Arts & Culture, and programs fostering startups, sustainability, and AI literacy for youth.
Prior to Google Yossi was on the Computer Science faculty at Tel Aviv University, a visiting professor at Stanford, and a Research Scientist at Bell Labs. He’s published over 200 papers and is the inventor of over 80 patents. He pioneered some of the early technologies for internet privacy, contextual search, and the effective analysis of Big Data. He is a recipient of the Gödel Prize, an ACM Fellow, and a recipient of the ACM Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for seminal work on streaming algorithms, data sketches, and large-scale data analytics
Yossi has a track record of impact-driven breakthrough research and innovation, and extensive product leadership, transforming products and advancing AI to help address global challenges.
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