John Platt, PhD

John is a Google Fellow currently working on fighting the climate crisis and applying AI tools to accelerate science. While at Google, he led the Colab notebook product and helped bring quantum computing to a point where it has surpassed classical computing on individual tasks. He was previously a Deputy Director of Microsoft Research, where he led the machine learning, computer vision, mathematics, database, and cryptography groups. He was the co-inventor of ClearType and of multiple well-known machine learning algorithms. He is also a recipient of a Technical Academy Award in 2005.