Lukman Ramsey

Lukman is Head of AI Solutions for the Public Sector in Google Cloud. He builds AI-based solutions for education and government. He speaks regularly at conferences around the world about Google’s AI technology and its applications in education, including ASU+GSV, the keynote at the World AI Summit, EDUCAUSE, the Disney Datathon, McKinsey Analytics Forum, and Google Cloud NEXT conferences.Lukman joined Google in January of ‘17 after acting as CTO for a series of New York startups in education technology, AI and speech recognition. Before joining Google he was the founding CTO and Chief Product Officer for Acrobatiq, a spin-out of the Open Learning Initiative at CMU, bulding an analytics and courseware platform for universities. Prior to that he was CTO of Neverware, a startup that converts school computers to chromebooks for schools. Acrobatiq was acquired by VitalSource in 2017 and Neverware was acquired by Google in 2019. Earlier in his career he built speech recognition dialog applications and platforms for call centers. Lukman did his PhD work in Computer Science at UC San Diego, doing computer vision research at JPL in the Machine Learning systems group. As an undergrad at MIT in Cognitive Science and Computer Science he worked on multi-layer neural networks before it was called "deep learning." His academic interests have always centered on the intersection of Cognitive Science and Computer Science.