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Researcher

Vincent Vanhoucke

Also known as Vincent Olivier Vanhoucke

Vincent Vanhoucke is a Distinguished Engineer at Waymo, and his research spans speech recognition, computer vision and robotics. He earns a Stanford doctorate in 2003 with a dissertation on covariance modeling for Gaussian mixtures in automatic speech recognition. At Google Brain he works on GoogLeNet and the Inception architectures, and in 2012 he explains that Android's Jelly Bean speech recognition runs on a neural network. The Going Deeper with Convolutions paper, which he co-authors, receives the 2025 Longuet-Higgins Prize. In 2022 an article he co-authors wins the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award.

Now at
Waymo
Works
68
Citations
123,573
h-index
33

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Photo of Vincent Vanhoucke

Timeline

  1. 2003

    A Stanford doctorate on covariance models

    He completes a Stanford doctorate in 2003 with a dissertation on covariance modeling for Gaussian mixtures in automatic speech recognition. He also holds an engineering diploma from École Centrale Paris.

  2. 2012

    Neural networks for Android speech

    In 2012 he co-authors an Interspeech paper on pretrained deep neural networks for large vocabulary speech recognition. He explains in a Google Research post that Android's Jelly Bean speech recognition runs on a neural network.

  3. 2014–2015

    GoogLeNet and the Inception series

    At Google Brain he works on GoogLeNet and the Inception series of vision architectures, which wins the 2014 ImageNet challenge. He co-authors Going Deeper with Convolutions, a CVPR 2015 paper.

  4. 2016

    A TensorFlow course with Udacity

    In 2016 he launches a TensorFlow deep learning course with Udacity, made up of four lectures from basic models to recurrent networks.

  5. 2024

    AI for autonomous driving at scale

    In 2024 he speaks at a NeurIPS expo talk panel on AI for autonomous driving at scale, as a Distinguished Engineer at Waymo.

  6. 2022

    Signal Processing Magazine award

    In 2022 the IEEE Signal Processing Society's magazine Best Paper Award goes to a November 2012 article on deep neural networks for acoustic modeling in speech recognition, which he co-authors.

  7. 2025

    The Longuet-Higgins Prize

    In 2025 the Longuet-Higgins Prize goes to Going Deeper with Convolutions, a CVPR 2015 paper that he co-authors.

  8. As of October 2026

    A distinguished engineer at Waymo

    He is a Distinguished Engineer at Waymo, and his research spans speech recognition, computer vision and robotics. He is a founder of Google's robotics research team, which is now part of Google DeepMind.

Sources and credits

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  1. Vincent Vanhoucke - The Mathematics Genealogy Project mathgenealogy.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Vincent Vanhoucke research.google. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. ISCA Archive - Application of pretrained deep neural networks to large vocabulary speech recognition isca-archive.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Speech Recognition and Deep Learning research.google. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. CVPR 2015 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. Teach Yourself Deep Learning with TensorFlow and Udacity research.google. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. NeurIPS Expo Talk Panel AI for Autonomous Driving at Scale neurips.cc. Checked 14 October 2026.
  8. 2022 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards to be Presented in Greece | IEEE Signal Processing Society signalprocessingsociety.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  9. IEEE Computer Society Celebrates 2025 Technical Community on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TCPAMI) Awardees cvpr.thecvf.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  10. Vincent Vanhoucke – FNC-2026 fnc.itu.int. Checked 14 October 2026.