Françoise Beaufays is a Distinguished Scientist at Google, where she leads a team of engineers and researchers working on speech recognition and mobile keyboard input. Her area of expertise covers deep learning, language modeling and other technologies related to natural language processing, with a recent focus on privacy-preserving on-device learning. Françoise studied Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in Brussels, Belgium. She holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and a PhD minor in Italian Literature, both from Stanford University.