John Blitzer

John Blitzer is a highly experienced research professional with a robust background in computer science, holding a Bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. John's career includes roles as a Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley and visiting researcher positions at Microsoft and Microsoft Research Asia. John also contributed as a Research Intern at Xerox PARC and Google, focusing on areas such as automatic summarization and Google News. Currently, John serves as a Principal Research Scientist and Director of Search Intelligence at Google, building on prior experience at Microsoft, where development of a Chinese web search ranker was a notable achievement.