Dr. William Halpin is a Principal Engineer and Director at Google, where he leads the Gmail, Calendar, and Chat Intelligence engineering team. His team is responsible for building large language and other machine learning features in Gmail, Calendar, and Chat. Bill joined Google in 2010 and in his first ten years led engineering for mobile web advertising. Prior to Google, he held positions at Synopsys, Synplicity, Intel, IBM, and GE. He was the vice president of IQE, Inc., a company that he founded as a student at Syracuse University. Bill is the author of numerous patents and papers, and co-authored a book on algorithms for designing and implementing computer chips. Bill graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. He subsequently earned his Master of Science degree and Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Engineering.
Dr. William Halpin
Please join us for an inspirational night of STEM as two keynote speakers share their
professions in STEM fields and explain how their work impacts the world around us.
All LASD students and parents are welcome to attend!
BLACH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL February 6, 2024
1120 Covington Rd, Los Altos , CA 94024 7:00 - 8:15 PM
Dr. Kira Radinsky
STEM CAREER NIGHT
Dr. Kira Radinsky is the CEO and CTO of Diagnostic Robotics, where the most advanced technologies in the field of artificial intelligence are harnessed to make healthcare better, cheaper, and more widely available. Dr. Radinsky has founded SalesPredict, acquired by eBay in 2016 and served as eBay Chief Scientist (IL). She gained international recognition for her work at the Technion and Microsoft Research for developing predictive algorithms that recognized the early warning signs of globally impactful events, as disease epidemics and political unrests. In 2013, she was named one of MIT Technology Review’s 35 Young Innovators Under 35 and in 2015 Forbes included her as "30 Under 30 Rising Stars in Enterprise Tech”. She is a frequent presenter at global tech and industry conferences, including TEDx, Wired, Strata Data Science, Techcrunch and publishes in HBR. Radinsky also serves as a board member in Israel Securities Authority and technology board of HSBC bank. She also holds a visiting professor position at the Technion focusing on the application of predictive data mining in medicine.