Baris Yuksel is an independent consultant and advisor specializing in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Baris has been focusing on designing and developing next generation features and technologies, trying to create magic moments.

Baris worked various teams during his 8 years at Google. Most recently, he was at Google Translate team collaborating with the Google Brain team to migrate Google Translate onto the new deep learning platform. Prior to that, Baris led the engineering team for Project Shield at Google Jigsaw, building a free reverse proxy for protecting newspapers against DDoS attacks. Baris also worked on Google Search with Craig Nevill-Manning, founder of Google New York. His work helped bridging the world between Search and Google Now Assistant making smart news article suggestions and developing recommendation systems. Prior to joining Search, Baris started and lead maps spam team at Google Maps. The spam team built machine learning algorithms dealing with big data, and designed intelligent systems which detected spam. Baris has volunteered in Africa at numerous computer science workshops, teaching new technologies to African college professors. He has an ongoing passion for spreading the knowledge in developing world to transform human experience for a better tomorrow.

Baris graduated from MIT with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, minoring in Economics. He is the inventor or co-inventor on several patents. He is a native of Istanbul and he currently resides in New York, NY. He loves the city, and has an avid passion to help building a strong tech community there. Baris loves cooking.