Vincent Vanhoucke is a Distinguished Engineer at Waymo. His research has spanned many areas of artificial intelligence and machine learning, from speech recognition to computer vision and robotics. At Google, he helped design and launch the first large scale production deep learning system which powered Google Voice Search, work that 10 years later earned the Best Paper Award from Signal Processing Magazine. He founded the Google Robotics research team, now part of Google DeepMind. He is a founder and past president of the Robot Learning Foundation, which organizes the Conference on Robot Learning. He holds a doctorate from Stanford University, a diplôme d’ingénieur from the École Centrale Paris, and is a Fellow of the IEEE.