Biography:Didier Guzzoni
PhD Didier René Guzzoni | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1970 (age 53–54) |
| Citizenship | Switzerland |
| Occupation | Senior Software Engineer |
| Known for | Artificial intelligence Intelligent assistants Siri |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Electrical engineering Computer science |
| Alma mater | EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) |
| Thesis | Active: a unified platform for building intelligent applications (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Baur |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Computer science |
| Institutions | Apple Inc. |
| Website | http://www.apple.com |
Didier Guzzoni (born 1970 in Geneva) is a Switzerland computer scientist and senior software engineer with the Apple's Siri team. He was a founding member and chief scientist at the start-up company Siri Inc. that was later acquired be Apple Inc.[1]
Career
Guzzoni studied electrical engineering at the Geneva State Engineering School, followed by studies in computer science at EPFL, where obtained a master's degree in 1996. He then worked with Charles Baur on medical robotics application at EPFL's Virtual Reality and Active Interface group.[2] In 1997, he moved to Silicon Valley to join the SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center to work with Luc Julia and Adam Cheyer at on artificial intelligence and robotics.[3][4][5] Then he was involved in multiple start-ups ranging from mobile robotics to AI-powered B2B platforms, where he collaborated among others with Rajiv Gupta and Shamik Sharma.
In 2004, he returned to EPFL to join Charles Baur's laboratory as a PhD student. His research aimed at facilitating the access on complex artificial intelligence techniques by software developers.[6]
After his graduation in 2007, together with Tom Gruber and Dag Kittlaus he cofounded and became chief scientist Siri Inc., a start-up company developing a mobile intelligent assistant. The company was acquired in 2010 by Apple Inc., and its technology has been incorporated with most Apple products since 2011. He is a senior software engineer with the Apple's Siri team.[7][8][9][10]
Selected works
Journal papers
- Baur Charles; Guzzoni Didier; Georg Olivier (1998). "Virgy: A Virtual Reality and Force Feedback Based Endoscopic Surgery Simulator". Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 50 (Medicine Meets Virtual Reality): 110–6. doi:10.3233/978-1-60750-894-6-110. PMID 10180525.
- Guzzoni, Didier; Adam Cheyer; Luc Julia; Kurt Konolige (1997). "Many Robots Make Short Work: Report of the SRI International Mobile Robot Team". AI Magazine 18. doi:10.1609/aimag.v18i1.1274. https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v18i1.1274.
- Guzzoni, Didier (1998). "Robots in a Distributed Agent System." Cognitive Robotics". Cognitive Robotics-Papers from the 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium: 61–67. https://www.aaai.org/Papers/Symposia/Fall/1998/FS-98-02/FS98-02-008.pdf.
Thesis
- Guzzoni, Didier (2007). Active: A unified platform for building intelligent applications. doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-3990.
Patent
- Cheyer, Adam & Didier Guzzoni, "Method and apparatus for building an intelligent automated assistant", US patent 8677377, published 2014-03-18
References
- ↑ "Didier Guzzoni | BILANZ" (in de). https://www.handelszeitung.ch/people/didier-guzzoni.
- ↑ Baur, C.; Guzzoni, D.; Georg, O. (1998). "VIRGY: a virtual reality and force feedback based endoscopic surgery simulator". Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 50: 110–116. ISSN 0926-9630. PMID 10180525. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10180525/.
- ↑ "Didier René Guzzoni". http://www.ai.sri.com/~guzzoni/resume.html.
- ↑ Guzzoni, Didier; Cheyer, Adam; Julia, Luc; Konolige, Kurt (1997-03-15). "Many Robots Make Short Work: Report of the SRI International Mobile Robot Team" (in en). AI Magazine 18 (1): 55. doi:10.1609/aimag.v18i1.1274. ISSN 2371-9621. https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1274.
- ↑ Guzzoni, Didier (1998). "Robots in a Distributed Agent System." Cognitive Robotics". Cognitive Robotics-Papers from the 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium: 61–67. https://www.aaai.org/Papers/Symposia/Fall/1998/FS-98-02/FS98-02-008.pdf.
- ↑ Guzzoni, Didier (2007). Active: A unified platform for building intelligent applications. doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-3990.
- ↑ "Didier Guzzoni, the Swiss inventor of Siri" (in en). https://houseofswitzerland.org/swissstories/science-education/didier-guzzoni-the-swiss-inventor-of-siri.
- ↑ "Didier Guzzoni, l'inventeur suisse de Siri: "N'ayons pas peur de l'intelligence artificielle"" (in fr). Le Temps. 2020-09-25. ISSN 1423-3967. https://www.letemps.ch/economie/didier-guzzoni-linventeur-suisse-siri-nayons-peur-lintelligence-artificielle.
- ↑ "Aujourd'hui en Suisse" (in fr). https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/aujourd-hui-en-suisse/46058268.
- ↑ "Startup Champions" (in fr). https://www.ifj.ch/index.cfm?page=136053&event_id=5434.
External links
- Website of Apple Inc.
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