Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Blaise Agüera y Arcas (born August 28, 1975) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher, software engineer, software architect, and author.
He is a vice president, fellow, and the CTO of Technology & Society at Google,
where he leads the Paradigms of Intelligence (Pi) team on basic research in AI and related fields. He is known for his work developing on-device machine learning and for inventing Federated Learning.
In 2016, he founded the Artists and Machine Intelligence program at Google, which creates art by pairing machine intelligence engineers with artists.
Before he joined Google in 2013, Agüera y Arcas was an engineer at Microsoft and the architect of Bing Maps and Bing Mobile.
Agüera y Arcas has published scientific articles, essays, op-eds, and the books Ubi Sunt in 2022, Who Are We Now? in 2023, and What Is Life? in 2025. He appears regularly at TED.
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