Blaise Aguera y Arcas
AI researcher and author
Blaise Agüera y Arcas is an American AI researcher and author, and a vice president and fellow at Google. He invented federated learning and wrote What Is Intelligence?
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Mexican Born 1975 in Providence, United States
About Blaise Aguera y Arcas
Blaise Agüera y Arcas was born in 1975. He is an American researcher, software engineer and author who works in artificial intelligence (AI). He moved to Google in 2013, having worked at Microsoft both as an engineer and as the architect behind Bing Maps and Bing Mobile. At Google he is a vice president, fellow and chief technology officer (CTO) of Technology & Society. He leads the Paradigms of Intelligence team, which does foundational research on AI and related areas. He is known for his work on on-device machine learning and for inventing federated learning, a way of training models without sharing private data. The Artists and Machine Intelligence program, which he started at Google in 2016, teams artists up with machine intelligence engineers to create art. He has written essays, op-eds and scientific articles, and has given TED Talks. His books include Ubi Sunt (2022), Who Are We Now? (2023), and, in 2025, What Is Life? and What Is Intelligence?