Google Quantum AI

Neven earned his PhD in 1996 from the University of Bochum with a thesis on vision-guided autonomous robots, then became a research professor in computer science and theoretical neuroscience at USC. He co-founded Eyematic and Neven Vision — a computer vision startup acquired by Google in 2006 — before pivoting to quantum computing. In 2012, alongside NASA's Pete Worden, he founded Google's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab. Neven coined the terms 'Quantum Machine Learning' and 'Quantum AI' and implemented the first machine learning algorithms on a quantum computer in 2007. He currently serves as VP of Engineering at Google, leading the Sycamore processor team that demonstrated quantum computational advantage in 2019.