Alex Olwal, Ph.D.
Research & Engineering Leader / Product Innovation for AI and AR
Human—AI Interaction · Multimodal Interfaces · Augmented Reality · Wearables · Human—Computer Interaction · Accessibility · Interaction Technology · Ubiquitous Computing · Medical Imaging · Shape Displays · Haptics and Robotics · Speech and Language
Founded and led various teams at Google, including the Interaction Lab. AI & Future Technologies 2024-2025, Augmented Language 2020-2024, Research and Machine Intelligence 2018-2020, Advanced Technologies and Projects 2017-2018, Wearables 2015-2017, Google [x] 2014-2015.
Academic research conducted at
MIT,
Columbia University,
University of California,
KTH (Royal Institute of Technology),
and Microsoft Research, with many fantastic collaborators and contributors at the same or other institutions.
Held academic affiliations as lecturer and faculty at Stanford University,
Rhode Island School of Design and
KTH.
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Augmented Language was featured in the Google I/O 2022 Keynote. Live translation of speech in everyday glasses
has the potential to make language more universally accessible and understandable. "Let's see what happens when we take our advances in translation and transcription, and deliver them in your line-of-sight in one of the early prototypes that we have been testing." (Sundar Pichai, CEO Google) |
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