Vincent Vanhoucke

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States26 yrs 7 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Expert in AI and Foundation Models.
  • Extensive experience in robotics and deep learning.
  • Leadership roles at top tech companies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and Robotics, specializing in advanced machine learning technologies.

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Skills

Other Skills

Machine LearningSpeech RecognitionNatural Language ProcessingPattern RecognitionArtificial IntelligenceSignal ProcessingComputer VisionImage ProcessingAcoustic ModelingCData MiningSoftware Engineering

About

I only connect on LinkedIn with people I know, and generally do not respond to cold calls. Thank you for your understanding.

Experience

Enchanted tools

Member of The Supervisory Board

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos

Waymo

Distinguished Engineer

Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

  • AI and Foundation Model Lead

Google

5 roles

Senior Director

May 2023Jun 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Head of Robotics, Google DeepMind

Distinguished Scientist

Promoted

Oct 2021May 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Senior Director, Robotics at Google

Principal Scientist

Promoted

Nov 2015Oct 2021 · 5 yrs 11 mos

  • Director, Robotics at Google

Staff Research Scientist

Promoted

Mar 2010Nov 2015 · 5 yrs 8 mos

  • Technical Lead / Manager, Brain team (deep learning infrastructure and research). Previously, speech technology team.

Research Scientist

Oct 2007Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Technical lead, GOOG-411.

Like.com

3 roles

Director of Research

Jul 2007Sep 2007 · 2 mos

  • Like.com was acquired by Google in 2010.

Research Architect

Jun 2006Jul 2007 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Research architect on shopping visual search engine Like.com
  • Project manager for Riya's face visual search.

Senior Research Engineer

Apr 2005Jun 2006 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Lead researcher and software architect on the text recognition component of riya.com. Researcher on face detection, text detection and text recognition algorithms.

Nuance communications

Research Engineer

Jun 1999Apr 2005 · 5 yrs 10 mos

  • Research and development in automatic speech recognition, acoustic modeling, confidence measures and speech user interface design.

Ercom

Intern

Jul 1998Aug 1998 · 1 mo

  • Development of a phone-based remote authentication system.

Oberland glas

Lab Assistant

Jul 1997Aug 1997 · 1 mo

  • Quality monitoring of a beer bottle production line.

Telediffusion de france

Intern

Jul 1994Aug 1994 · 1 mo

  • Design of DSP tools for the analysis of broadcast television signals.

Education

Stanford University

PhD — Electrical Engineering

Jun 1999Nov 2003

Stanford University

MS — Electrical Engineering

Sep 1998Jun 1999

CentraleSupélec

Ingenieur

Sep 1996Jun 1999

Lycée Sainte-Geneviève

Jan 1994Jan 1996

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