Hartmut Neven
ADVISORY BOARD
Hartmut Neven, Ph.D. is a member of Tiny Blue Dot Foundation’s advisory board.
Neven studied Physics and Economics in Brazil, Cologne, Paris, Tübingen and Jerusalem. He wrote his Master thesis on a neuronal model of object recognition at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute for Neuroinformatics at Germany’s Ruhr University.
Neven was a research professor for Computer Science and Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, then became the head of the Laboratory for Human-Machine Interfaces at USC's Information Sciences Institute.
Neven started two computer vision companies. His second company, Neven Vision, pioneered visual search for mobile phones and was the first to launch face filters on the networks of NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone Japan. Neven Vision was acquired by Google in 2006.
Neven’s career at Google has included many honors and innovations. He was a co-founder of Project Glass and led the team that built the first prototype. Neven co-invented the concept of adversarial images. He led the team that developed the visual search service used today by a large number of Google products. His teams won several competitions designed to establish the best visual recognition software for faces (FERET 1996, FRVT 2002), objects (ImageNet 2014), and text (ICDAR 2013).
Neven is now a Vice President of Engineering at Google. He is the founder and manager of the Quantum Artificial Intelligence lab, whose objective is to fabricate quantum processors and develop novel quantum algorithms to dramatically accelerate computational tasks for machine intelligence.