Lucy Vasserman leads Engineering at Jigsaw, an incubator within Google that builds technologies to address emerging societal issues. Jigsaw develops Community AI to address problems of coordination and cooperation that individuals cannot solve alone and current projects span civic engagement, health, and economic prosperity.
Lucy joined Google in 2010 after graduating from Pomona College with a B.A. in Computer Science. Prior to leading Engineering at Jigsaw, she led the team’s Perspective API effort, using machine learning to identify toxicity and facilitate healthier online discourse at scale. Earlier at Google, Lucy worked on machine learning research and engineering for Speech Recognition and Google Shopping. Passionate about science education, Lucy taught Computer Science at Xavier University in New Orleans through the Google in Residence program and has served on non-profit boards for Citizen Schools and School in the Square.
In her free time, Lucy enjoys dance, scuba diving and, as a native New Yorker, all things New York.