Alex Fabrikant, PhD

Alex Fabrikant is a staff research scientist at Google Research, where he works on natural language processing, machine learning, and algorithmic problems spanning network science, social computing, and geospatial analysis. His published work includes contributions to transformer architectures for NLP, COVID-19 mobility analytics, and foundational problems in game theory and internet routing. Before joining Google, he held a research position at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Hertz Fellow, with a dissertation titled “Complexity of Game Dynamics.” His bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, linguistics, and mathematics are also from UC Berkeley.