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Vincent Vanhoucke

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Distinguished Engineer at Waymo

🇧🇪 Belgian

Vanhoucke helped bring deep neural networks into Google's speech-recognition systems, improving how products understood spoken words at scale. He later founded Google's robotics research team, advancing machines that learn physical skills from experience rather than fixed instructions.

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Distinguished Engineer
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26234,851220,987207,123Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
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