Brian Choi is a Staff Software Engineer at Google, where since November 2011, Brian has served as a Tech Lead Manager, overseeing a team of 10 engineers in developing the 1P Google Assistant development platform and scalable infrastructure. Prior to this role, Brian contributed as a Software Engineering Intern at Google in 2010 and worked as a Graduate Student Researcher and Teaching Fellow at UCLA from September 2006 to September 2011, culminating in a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 2011. Notable past projects include the Personal Search Infrastructure in Los Angeles and Search Infrastructure in Mountain View.