Ed H. Chi

（紀懷新）

VP of Research,

Google DeepMind

(Large Language Models with LaMDA/Bard, Neural Recommenders, HCI & Social Computing)

email: chi@acm.org

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."

-- The Buddha

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Bio: Ed H. Chi is VP of Research at Google DeepMind, leading machine learning research teams working on large language models (from LaMDA leading to launching Bard/Gemini), and universal assistant agents. With 39 patents and ~200 research articles, he is also known for research on user behavior in web and social media. As the Research Platform Lead, he helped launched Bard/Gemini, a conversational chatbot experiment. His research also delivered significant improvements for YouTube, News, Ads, Google Play Store at Google with >950 product landings and ~$10.4B in annual revenue since 2013.

Prior to Google, he was Area Manager and Principal Scientist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center's Augmented Social Cognition Group in researching how social computing systems help groups of people to remember, think and reason. Ed earned his 3 degrees (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) in 6.5 years from University of Minnesota. Inducted as an ACM Fellow and into the CHI Academy, he also received a 20-year Test of Time award for research in information visualization. He has been featured and quoted in the press, including the Economist, Time Magazine, LA Times, and the Associated Press. An avid golfer, swimmer, photographer and snowboarder in his spare time, he also has a blackbelt in Taekwondo.