{"id":8278,"date":"2019-02-20T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T23:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=8278"},"modified":"2019-02-20T16:10:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T00:10:55","slug":"david-salesin-joins-google-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/david-salesin-joins-google-research\/","title":{"rendered":"David Salesin joins Google Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMan, that dude looks eerily like <a href=\"http:\/\/salesin.cs.washington.edu\/\">David Salesin<\/a>,\u201d I thought the other day as I was getting coffee, \u201cbut nah, he\u2019s wearing a new-employee badge. But wait, holy crap\u2026 that dude\u00a0<em>is<\/em> David Salesin wearing an employee badge!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you don\u2019t know his name, but for 11+ years David (a tango-dancing Aikido black belt) led a wing of Adobe Research, and we collaborated on more projects than I can begin to count. Now he\u2019s at the Goog (having led Snapchat research in the interim), teaming back up with several of our fellow Adobe alums. I can\u2019t wait to see what he does here!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Last Monday I began work as a Principal Scientist \/ Director at Google AI Perception, based in San Francisco. I&#8217;m excited to collaborate with so many good friends and colleagues who are already at Google, and, in time, to hire many more. Google&#8217;s products and reach are incredibly broad, and so is the mandate for my lab: I look forward to continue inventing tools for creative expression, as well as to begin working on some brand new far-reaching challenges potentially well outside my area of expertise, like applying AI to healthcare. In my new role, I&#8217;m energized to grow in new ways, working on projects that, in Larry Page&#8217;s words, are &#8220;uncomfortably exciting&#8221;!\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMan, that dude looks eerily like David Salesin,\u201d I thought the other day as I was getting coffee, \u201cbut nah, he\u2019s wearing a new-employee badge. But wait, holy crap\u2026 that dude\u00a0is David Salesin wearing an employee badge!\u201d Perhaps you don\u2019t know his name, but for 11+ years David (a tango-dancing Aikido black belt) led a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8280,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278\/revisions\/8280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}