Kiara Nirghin is an award-winning Stanford AI technologist and best-selling author. She won the Google Grand Prize for seminal research in AI algorithms. Since then, she has been featured by TIME Magazine and Forbes on their Most Influential lists. She is also a Thiel Fellow, the youngest board member of the Google Impact Fund, and a Y Combinator alum. At Stanford University, Kiara led foundational AI research at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) as a Senior Researcher, and also served as an Instructor in the Computer Science Department. She is now an Advisor to the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI).
Kiara's contributions and first-person publications have been published in Scientific American, TIME100 Voices, Fortune Magazine, The Economist, Inc., Fast Company, and The New York Times.
AI abstraction complexity in real-world deployment and the need for more fundamental breakthrough ideas are the bottlenecks to rapid AI progress. Kiara's work focuses on advancing the former so that more effort can be devoted to the latter.
"The future is being built right now. We are living in an era of exponential change, where technology and bold thinking are reshaping what's possible in real time."
"A more daring, open, and abundant reality is emerging."