Yossi Matias

Yossi Matias is Vice President of Google and the Head of Google Research. He leads world-class global teams driving research from foundational and applied machine learning and algorithms, to foundational models in health, education and earth, to generative AI and science, to quantum computing. Matias was previously part of the Google Search leadership for over a decade, leading strategic features and technologies from autocomplete and trends to pioneering conversational AI innovations. He was also the founding lead of Google center in Israel, building and growing it to a 2,500-strong staff, and helped grow the Bangalore and Africa teams. 

During his nearly two-decade tenure at Google, Matias drove breakthrough research and innovation, led products and founded and spearheaded initiatives leading to Google's AI for Social Good, Crisis Response, Google for Startups Accelerator, and Google Arts & Culture. Prior to Google, he drove entrepreneurship endeavours as well as academic research - he was on the Computer Science faculty of Tel Aviv University, a visiting professor at Stanford, and a research scientist at Bell Labs. 

A prolific computer scientist, Yossi is a recipient of the Gödel Prize, the ACM Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award and is an ACM Fellow. He is passionate about driving the magic cycle from breakthrough research to transformative impact on technology and products, on science and society.