Carnegie Mellon University
Amin VahdatChief Technologist, AI Infrastructure and SVP · GoogleResearcher↗
Researcher
H. Brendan McMahan
GooglePrincipal Research Scientist
McMahan introduced federated learning, which trains a shared model across many devices without collecting their raw data centrally. His FedAvg algorithm made the approach practical, and his later work brought differential-privacy guarantees to deployed on-device language models.
Career & education
Current roleGoogle2021-presentPrincipal Research Scientist
Google2021-presentEducation
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations127,009As of Nov 1, '26
citations+4,068Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
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