Dan Russell

Former Principal UX Researcher at Google | Author of “The Joy of Search” | Research Scientist

Dr. Daniel M. Russell has been working in Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction for nearly 40 years. He has worked at several of the top technology innovation companies in Silicon Valley (Google, Apple, Xerox PARC, IBM) and has been at the forefront of many of their inventions. He was in the core search engineering team at Google for over 17 years and currently teaches in the Human-AI group at Stanford’s Computer Science department. He has written over 200 technical articles for professional journals, as well as many articles for the popular press. His most recent book, The Joy of Search: A Google Insider’s Guide to Going Beyond the Basics, is now out in paperback. Dan has taught over 1,000 in-person classes in venues ranging from 4th-grade student classes to professional classes for reference librarians at the Library of Congress. Over the past decade, he has been on the faculty at Stanford, the University of Maryland, and the University of Zürich. He currently serves on multiple boards of information schools. Millions of students have watched his online classes, accumulating over 450 years of YouTube watch time. Dan now teaches human-computer interaction and AI at both Stanford University and the University of Zürich (Switzerland).