Joaquin Quiñonero Candela

I am a Technical Fellow at LinkedIn where I focus on AI — both the technology as well as ensuring its responsible use.

I am also a member of the Spanish Government’s Advisory Board on Artificial Intelligence, and until recently I was a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Harvard Belfer Center, and served on the Board of Directors of the Partnership on AI, an organization interested in the societal consequences of artificial intelligence.

Until September 2021, I was the Distinguished Technical Lead for Responsible AI at Facebook, where I led the technical strategy for areas like fairness and inclusiveness, robustness, privacy, transparency and accountability. Before this, I built and led the AML (Applied Machine Learning) team at Facebook, driving product impact at scale through applied research in machine learning, language understanding, computer vision, computational photography, augmented reality and other AI disciplines. AML also built the unified AI platform that powers all production applications of AI across the family of Facebook products.

Prior to Facebook, I built and taught a new machine learning course at the University of Cambridge (together with Carl Rasmussen), worked at Microsoft Research, and conducted postdoctoral research at three institutions in Germany, including the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. I received my PhD from the Technical University of Denmark.

Specialties: Ethics of AI, Technology Transfer, ML at Scale, Mathematical Modelling, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Machine Learning Research, Bayesian and Probabilisitic Inference