Emmanuel Mogenet (born 1967) is a software engineer and one of the investors and advisors behind Daedalean AI,[1] a company dedicated to artificial intelligence for safety critical aviation applications.

Emmanuel Mogenet
Born1967
Alma materÉcole nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
InstitutionsGoogle
Websiteresearch.google.com/pubs/EmmanuelMogenet.html

Mogenet is also a former senior engineering director at Google Inc. and, until May 2018, lead Google Research Europe,[2] Google's Zürich-based Machine Intelligence Research Center. Before that, he was head of Google's Zürich Search Team.

Born and raised in France, Mogenet received an engineering degree with a specialization in computer science from École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne and an M.S. degree from Jean Monnet University, both in 1990.

Mogenet started his career in the field of computer graphics and special effects. He worked in France, Singapore, Japan and the United States for various companies, including Thomson-CSF, Silicon Graphics, Sony Picture Imageworks, Nothing Real and Apple.

In 1996, with a group of friends from Sony Pictures Imageworks,[3] he co-founded Nothing Real, a software company that produced the digital compositing application Shake.[4] Nothing Real was acquired in 2002 by Apple[5]

In 2006, he left Apple to join Google to work on the core search engine.He was with Google until May 2018, where he worked as senior engineering director, leading the Google European Research center in Zürich, Switzerland.[6] with a strong focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning.[7]

References edit

  1. ^ Daedalean AG website
  2. ^ "Bilanz Who Is Who, Emmanuel Mogenet".
  3. ^ Mike Seymour (28 September 2017). "Celebrating 25 years of Sony Pictures Imageworks". FX Guide. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  4. ^ Dan Sarto (12 August 1999). "Nothing Real demonstrates its Shake line of compositing software". Animation World Network. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  5. ^ Dennis Sellers (7 February 2002). "Apple buys Nothing Real". Mac World. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  6. ^ Madhumita Murgia (18 June 2016). "Google starts search for AI talent at new lab in Switzerland". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
    - Morgane Tual (17 June 2016). "Intelligence artificielle : Google lance un groupe de recherche européen sur l'apprentissage". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  7. ^ Luca Zorloni (26 May 2017). "Mogenet al Wired Next Fest: "Il prossimo Google Search dovrà essere educato, non costruito"". Wired (in Italian). Retrieved 2 October 2020.
    - Yves Hulmann (18 June 2016). "Google fait de Zurich son centre pour la recherche sur l'intelligence artificielle". Le Temps (in French). Retrieved 2 October 2020.

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