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Meet Dr Seiji Armstrong: A quantum physicist and machine learning specialist on a mission to make the internet safer.

Get to know our 2022 Technology and Entrepreneurship Awardee, Dr Seiji Armstrong, as he shares his insight and international career journey as Head of Machine Learning in the Trust and Safety division at Google headquarters in California. Dr Armstrong leads a dedicated team focused on protecting child safety, countering violent extremism and, most recently, eradicating Covid-19-related racial vilification online. Operating in what is a new frontier for global safety and security, he has developed a series of machine-learning algorithms able to rapidly identify online abuse and policy breaches, with the goal of creating a safer place for all digital users online. Read more.