Hon. Associate Professor Dr Larissa Suzuki

I am an award-winning passionate computer scientist, author, engineer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and inventor. I am neurodivergent, a pianist and violinist, and I hold the titles of EUR ING, BSc, MPhil, PhD, CEng, FIET, FRSA, AFHEA, IntPE. I hold the Freedom of the City of London, am a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers and an Engineer member of the International Engineering Alliance.

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, and the ACM. I am a Council Member of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Ambassadors, a Committee member of the Grace Hopper Celebration and the ABIE Awards, an Ambassador of the AllBright Club, and I’ve served as ambassador for many other technology/educational organisations.

My career includes +16 years working in engineering. I work at Google as a Data Practice Lead (AI/Machine Learning, Smart Analytics and Data Management), and I am a Google AI Principles Ethics Fellow. I work on the Interplanetary Internet on cloud computing. My continuing academic work is at UCL and University of Oxford where I serve as an Honorary Associate Professor in Computer Science and a 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 2003 I’ve actively worked towards increasing the representation of people of all kinds in Engineering and Technology.