Marian Croak
VP, Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology, Google
The social psychologist who co-developed text-to-donate and earned 200-plus patents is now Google's VP of Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology.
- Born
- 1955-05-14, New York, New York, United States
- Now
- VP of Engineering, Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology, Google
- Studied
- University of Southern California, Princeton University
Interesting facts
- Early start
Traces her interest in technology to age 5 or 6, when she was enchanted by the plumbers and electricians who came to fix things at home.
blog.google - Detour
Trained as a social psychologist; her dissertation studied what drives inter-group bias and altruistic behavior.
blog.google - Numbers
Holds more than 200 patents, nearly half of them on Voice over IP, the tech that carries phone calls over the internet.
ncwit.org - Side project
Co-invented text-to-donate; it raised $130,000 after Hurricane Katrina and $43 million after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
invent.org - First
In 2022 she became one of the first two Black women inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
blog.google - Before AI
Her first Google job was bringing the internet to emerging markets, from fiber in Africa to public Wi-Fi in India's railway stations.
blog.google
Career
- GoogleVP of Engineering, Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology, Google Research2014 to now
- AT&TSenior Vice President, Applications and Services Infrastructure, Bell Labs / AT&T Labs1982–2014
Education
- PhD, Social psychology and quantitative analysis, University of Southern California
- BA, Princeton University
