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Cliff Young is a member of the Google Brain team, whose mission is to develop deep learning technologies and deploy them throughout Google. He is one of the designers of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), which is used in production applications including Search, Maps, Photos, and Translate. TPUs also powered AlphaGo’s historic 4-1 victory over Go champion Lee Sedol. Before joining Google, Cliff worked at D. E. Shaw Research, building special-purpose supercomputers for molecular dynamics, and at Bell Labs.
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