I am Prof Dr Larissa Suzuki, also known as Lara Suzuki.

I have worked in the Tech and Engineering industry for over +17 years. I work at Google as a Technical Director at the Office of the CTO, and I am a Google AI Principles Ethics Fellow. I work on the Interplanetary Internet on cloud computing  project with IPNSIG and NASA, in collaboration with engineers, academics and professionals of ESA and JAXA engineers, and academics. I also work on Federated Learning and Sustainable AI with the Office of the CTO at Google.

My continuing academic work is at UCL, Université du Québec, and University of Oxford and Harvard University, where I serve as an Honorary Associate Professor in Computer Science, Associate Professor in Management Science and guest Lecturer, respectively.

I have received numerous awards and recognitions for my contributions to industry and international science.  I am an active keynote speaker and an open source contributor.

Since the age of 17 I’ve actively worked towards increasing the representation of people of all kinds in Engineering and Technology.

I am the Chair of the Tech London Advocates Smart Cities Group,  a reviewer of grant/awards of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IET, the ACM and the Engineers Trust. I am a Committee member of the  Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, of the Grace Hopper Celebration and the ABIE Awards, and Ambassador of the AllBright Academy, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, amongst other organisations.