Vincent Vanhoucke
Distinguished Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Vanhoucke is a distinguished engineer and AI leader based in San Francisco with over a decade of experience bridging foundational research and product-scale systems. He has led robotics and foundation-model efforts at Google DeepMind and now heads AI and foundation model work at Waymo, bringing deep expertise in deep learning infrastructure, speech, vision, and robotic systems. His career traces from applied research in speech and visual search to senior technical leadership roles that shaped Google's Brain and robotics teams, reflecting a rare combination of hands-on algorithmic skill and large-scale engineering judgment. Vincent holds advanced degrees from Stanford and CentraleSupélec and has a history of moving research into production, including early work on visual search and GOOG-411. Known for selective professional networks, he focuses collaborations on trusted relationships and high-impact technical stewardship.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Ingenieur, Ingenieur at CentraleSupélecLycée Sainte-GenevièvePhD, Electrical Engineering, PhD, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
English, French
Github Skills (56)
valine10
json10
javascript10
jquery10
slide10
snap10
eslint10
zmodem10
slideshow10
scrolling10
webpack10
mousewheel10
pjax10
zeplin10
fullscreen10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SinaMFE/marauder-template
Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 1 year 4 months
SinaMFE/card-loader
May 2018 - Apr 2021
Hybrid card loader for Marauder
Contributions:64 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 2 years 11 months
loaderhybrid
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