Guy Lebanon is an engineering director at Google where he works on machine learning and AI projects within the Platforms and Ecosystems organization. Previously, he was a director at Amazon and Netflix, and a tenured professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Guy published several books and over 70 refereed articles and received a PhD in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon University. He chaired the 2015 AI & Statistics conference and the 2012 ACM CIKM conference and was action editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research during 2013-2018. He won first place in the PASCAL image segmentation competition three times, and received an NSF CAREER Award, the WWW best student paper award, the ICML best paper runner-up award, the Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Award, and is a Siebel Scholar.
PhD, Computer Science, 2005
Carnegie Mellon University
MS, Computer Science, 2002
Carnegie Mellon University
MS, Computer Science, 2000
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
BA, Computer Science (Summa Cum Laude), 1999
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology