Explore our many areas of focus
From conducting fundamental research to influencing product development, our research teams have the opportunity to impact technology used by billions of people every day.
Research areas
Our teams aspire to make discoveries that impact everyone, and core to our approach is sharing our research and tools to fuel progress in the field.
Our researchers publish regularly in academic journals, release projects as open source, and apply research to Google products.
Learn more about our research philosophy and principles.
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Algorithms and Theory
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Data Management
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Data Mining and Modeling
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Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
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Economics and Electronic Commerce
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Education Innovation
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General Science
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Hardware and Architecture
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Health & Bioscience
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Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization
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Information Retrieval and the Web
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Machine Intelligence
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Machine Perception
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Machine Translation
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Mobile Systems
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Natural Language Processing
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Networking
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Quantum Computing
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Responsible AI
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Robotics
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Security, Privacy and Abuse Prevention
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Software Engineering
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Software Systems
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Speech Processing