Françoise Beaufays

Organisation: Google (US)

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.