Brendan McMahan
Principal Scientist and Co-Creator, Google and Federated Learning
Principal Scientist and Co-Creator, Google and Federated Learning
Brendan McMahan is a principal research scientist at Google, where he leads efforts on decentralized and privacy-preserving machine learning. His team pioneered the concept of federated learning, and continues to push the boundaries of what is possible when working with centralized and decentralized data using privacy-preserving techniques. Previously, he has worked in the fields of online learning, large-scale convex optimization, and reinforcement learning. Brendan received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.