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Hi, I’m Lauren. I’ve been researching and designing conversational interfaces since 2014.

I studied Cognitive Science at Barnard College, where I received the Intellectual Frontiers Prize for my speech perception research.

Currently: 
DeepMind

Previously:
Google
Nuance

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If you're looking for a speaker who can bring a fresh perspective and a bit of personality to your event, I'd love to chat!

I like talking about:


How AI is changing the way we write 

My extremely niche UX discipline (CxD)

Personalization

Google • Gemini • Recall

Project


Let users pick up where they left off

Contribution


Evals, training data, thought leadership


Status


Available with Gemini Advanced


Fun fact


This project made me rethink “how people talk”

Google • Gemini • Image Upload

Project


Teach Gemini Live how to respond to images

Contribution


Kicked off model training flywheel


Status


Available with Gemini Live


Fun fact


The Superbowl commercial about this release almost made me cry


Google • Gemini • Saved Info

Project


Give users a way to tell Gemini what to remember


Contribution


Evals, training data, thought leadership


Status


Available with Gemini Advanced


Fun fact


I filed my first ever patent working on this


Google • Gemini • Live

Project


Make Gemini Live a great conversation partner


Contribution


Lots of supervised fine-tuning


Status


Available on Android and iOS


Fun fact


This is the first thing I worked on that impressed my sci-fi dad



Google • Pixel • Voice Typing

Project


Make spellcheck easier for Pixel voice typers


Contribution


Dialog design, multimodal UX


Status


“Fix it” command is available on Pixel 8+


Fun fact


Our team’s motto was ‘no more cursor surgery’




Nuance • NYC311 • IVR

Project


Improve address collection flow for NYC 311 callers


Contribution


Dialog design, log analysis


Status


Call 311 and report your noisy neighbor to find out


Fun fact


Ask me about the time I met Mayor Eric Adams



Barnard • Speech Perception Lab

Project


Partner with NIH to investigate what makes speech intelligible


Contribution


My thesis on audiovisual asynchrony


Status


Research pending publication


Fun fact


I used to be really good at reading spectrograms