Biography:Yossi Matias

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Yossi Matias
יוסי מטיאס
Known forStreaming Algorithms, Sketches, Google Trends, Google Autocomplete, Conversational AI, Google Duplex, AI for Social Good, Flood Forecasting, Speculative Decoding, LLM Factuality Med-Palm, AI Co-Scientist
AwardsGödel Prize, ACM Fellow, Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsGoogle, Tel Aviv University

Yossi Matias (Hebrew: יוסי מטיאס) is an Israeli-American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and technology executive. He serves as Vice President of Engineering & Research at Google and is the Head of Google Research. Matias was the founding managing director of Google’s Center in Israel.[1]

Matias has been part of the leadership team of Google Research, serving as the global executive lead for initiatives in Health AI,[2][3] Crisis Response, and Climate AI,[4] and leads work in Conversational AI.

For more than a decade, he was a key figure in Google Search leadership, helping develop and oversee products and features including Google Trends, Google Autocomplete, Search Console, and search experiences related to weather, sports, and dictionaries. In 2024, Matias relocated to Silicon Valley to lead Google Research globally, overseeing the company’s worldwide research activities.[5]

Matias established the Research and Development Center of Google in Israel.[6] growing it to over 2500 on staff,[7] with efforts working on Search, AI, Waze, Cloud and Chip design. He led the development of Google products such as Google Trends, Google Insights for Search, Google Suggest, Google Visualization API, Ephemeral IDs for IoT.[8]

He led efforts in Conversational AI including Google Duplex,[9][10] Call Screen,[11] Live Caption,[12] Live Relay,[13] Recorder,[14] and Euphonia.[15] He led development of Generative AI breakthroughs including Speculative Decoding[16] and Factuality,[17] and led advancing Healthcare and Scientific discovery with AI[18] including Med-Palm,[19][20][21] AMIE,[22][23] MedGemma,[24] and AI Co-Scientist.[25]

He pioneered an initiative to bring cultural and heritage collections online, such as the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum archive,[26] the Dead Sea Scrolls,[27] and the Nelson Mandela Archive,[28] which along with Google Art Project seeded up Google Cultural Institute.[29] He is leading a global initiative for Crisis Response[30] and Flood Forecasting.[31]

Matias is the executive lead and founder of Google's Campus Tel Aviv,[32] a technology hub for promoting innovation and entrepreneurship and birthplace of programs such as Campus for Moms and LaunchPad, which has evolved into Launchpad Accelerator, and LaunchPad Studio for AI & ML focused startups.[33] He is a founding lead of Google's AI for Social Good initiative.

Prof. Matias is on the computer science faculty at Tel Aviv University, and previously a research scientist at Bell Labs and a visiting professor at Stanford. He published over 200 papers in diverse areas including data analysis, algorithms for massive data sets, data streams and synopses, parallel algorithms and systems, data compression, data and information management systems, security and privacy, video processing, Internet technologies, AI for health, machine learning and language models. He is the inventor of over 80 patents. He pioneered some of the early technologies for the effective analysis of big data, internet privacy and contextual search.

Matias is a recipient of Gödel Prize,[34] an ACM Fellow[35] and a recipient of Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award[36] for seminal work on the foundations of streaming algorithms and their application to large scale data analytics.[37]

References

  1. ↑ Ungerleider, Neal (2010-11-03). "Google Israel's Chief Geek Yossi Matias Offers a Peek Inside the R&D Center | Fast Company | Business + Innovation". Fast Company. http://www.fastcompany.com/1699742/google-israel-yossi-matias. 
  2. ↑ Yossi Matias and, Greg Corrado (February 23, 2023). "Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Health". https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/02/google-research-2022-beyond-health.html. 
  3. ↑ Greg Corrado and, Yossi Matias (March 14, 2023). "Our latest health AI research updates". https://blog.google/technology/health/ai-llm-medpalm-research-thecheckup/. 
  4. ↑ Matias, Yossi (November 2, 2022). "How we're using AI to help address the climate crisis". https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/cop27-adaptation-efforts/. 
  5. ↑ "Google Israel R&D head Yossi Matias moving to global role" (in en). Globes. 2024-04-18. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-google-israel-rd-head-yossi-matias-moving-to-global-role-1001477138. 
  6. ↑ "Decode with Google 15RAEL - 15 years of innovation made in Israel: Yossi Matias". 27 April 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_U1s1xoYoA. 
  7. ↑ Shahaf, Tal (2023-04-02). "Yossi Matias: the man who develops Google's main tools (Hebrew)". tech12. https://www.tech12.co.il/index-specials/techlist-2023/ai/Article-ec86d55a1a73781027.htm?sCh=bf6963a8895e6810&pId=323612318. 
  8. ↑ "Growing Eddystone with Ephemeral Identifiers: A Privacy Aware & Secure Open Beacon Format". 2016-04-14. https://security.googleblog.com/2016/04/growing-eddystone-with-ephemeral-identifiers.html. 
  9. ↑ Leviathan, Yaniv; Matias, Yossi (May 8, 2018). "Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real-World Tasks Over the Phone" (in en-US). Google AI Blog. https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html. 
  10. ↑ Nieva, Richard (May 9, 2018). "Exclusive: Google's Duplex could make Assistant the most lifelike AI yet". CBS Interactive. https://www.cnet.com/news/google-assistant-duplex-at-io-could-become-the-most-lifelike-ai-voice-assistant-yet/. 
  11. ↑ Singleton, Micah (October 9, 2018). "Google Assistant will screen spam calls on the Pixel 3". https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/9/17955274/google-pixel-3-spam-calls-assistant-screen-filter. 
  12. ↑ Michelle Tadmor-Ramanovich and, Nadav Bar (October 29, 2019). "On-Device Captioning with Live Caption". https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/on-device-captioning-with-live-caption.html. 
  13. ↑ Caduri, Sapir (May 7, 2019). "Easier phone calls without voice or hearing". https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/accessibility/live-relay-phone-calls-io/. 
  14. ↑ Lin, Sherry (October 22, 2019). "Record a lecture, name that song: Pixel 4 uses on-device AI". https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/on-device-ai-with-pixel4/. 
  15. ↑ Cattiau, Julie (May 7, 2019). "How AI can improve products for people with impaired speech". https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/accessibility/impaired-speech-recognition/. 
  16. ↑ Yaniv Leviathan, Yossi Matias. "Looking back at speculative decoding". https://research.google/blog/looking-back-at-speculative-decoding/. 
  17. ↑ Honovich, Or; Aharoni, Roee; Herzig, Jonathan; Taitelbaum, Hagai; Kukliansy, Doron; Cohen, Vered; Scialom, Thomas; Szpektor, Idan; Hassidim, Avinatan; Matias, Yossi (2022). "TRUE: Re-evaluating Factual Consistency Evaluation". arXiv:2204.04991 [cs.CL].
  18. ↑ Matias, Yossi (4 March 2025). "Advancing healthcare and scientific discovery with AI". https://blog.google/technology/health/google-research-healthcare-ai/. 
  19. ↑ "Med-Palm". https://sites.research.google/med-palm/. 
  20. ↑ Singhal, Karan et al. (2023). "Large language models encode clinical knowledge". Nature 620 (7972): 172–180. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06291-2. PMID 37438534. PMC 10396962. Bibcode: 2023Natur.620..172S. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06291-2. 
  21. ↑ Singhal, Karan et al. (2025). "Toward expert-level medical question answering with large language models". Nature Medicine 31 (3): 943–950. doi:10.1038/s41591-024-03423-7. PMID 39779926. 
  22. ↑ Tu, Tao; Schaekermann, Mike; Palepu, Anil; Saab, Khaled; Freyberg, Jan; Tanno, Ryutaro; Wang, Amy; Li, Brenna et al. (2025). "Towards conversational diagnostic artificial intelligence". Nature 642 (8067): 442–450. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08866-7. PMID 40205050. Bibcode: 2025Natur.642..442T. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08866-7. 
  23. ↑ McDuff, Daniel; Schaekermann, Mike; Tu, Tao; Palepu, Anil; Wang, Amy; Garrison, Jake; Singhal, Karan; Sharma, Yash et al. (2025). "Towards accurate differential diagnosis with large language models". Nature 642 (8067): 451–457. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08869-4. PMID 40205049. Bibcode: 2025Natur.642..451M. 
  24. ↑ Sellergren, Andrew; et al. (2025). "MedGemma Technical Report". arXiv:2507.05201 [cs.AI].
  25. ↑ Gottweis, Juraj; et al. (2025). "Towards an AI co-scientist". arXiv:2502.18864 [cs.AI].
  26. ↑ Fisher, Allyn. "Google widens access to Israel's Holocaust archives". Uk.reuters.com. http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE70P3ZM20110126. 
  27. ↑ "Digital Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem - The Project". Dss.collections.imj.org.il. http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/media. 
  28. ↑ "Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory". Archive.nelsonmandela.org. 2004-09-21. http://archive.nelsonmandela.org. 
  29. ↑ "Google Cultural Institute". https://artsandculture.google.com/. 
  30. ↑ Matias, Yossi (2017-07-25). "Helping people in a crisis". Google the Keyword. https://www.blog.google/products/search/helping-people-crisis/. 
  31. ↑ Matias, Yossi (2018-09-24), Keeping people safe with AI-enabled flood forecasting, Google the Keyword, https://www.blog.google/products/search/helping-keep-people-safe-ai-enabled-flood-forecasting/, retrieved 2018-09-24 
  32. ↑ "Google Campus". Campustelaviv.com. 2013-09-24. http://www.campustelaviv.com. 
  33. ↑ "Apply to Google Developers Launchpad Studio for AI & ML focused startups". Google Developers Blog. 2017-07-26. https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/07/apply-to-google-developers-launchpad.html. 
  34. ↑ "2005 Godel Prize". Sigact.org. http://www.sigact.org/Prizes/Godel/2005.html. 
  35. ↑ "Yossi Matias - Award Winner". Fellows.acm.org. http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=4099198&srt=all. 
  36. ↑ "Yossi Matias - ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award". https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/matias_4099198. 
  37. ↑ Alon, Noga; Matias, Yossi; Szegedy, Mario (1999-02-01). "The Space Complexity of Approximating the Frequency Moments". Journal of Computer and System Sciences 58 (1): 137–147. doi:10.1006/jcss.1997.1545. ISSN 0022-0000. 



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