Didier Guzzoni

PhD Didier René Guzzoni
Born	1970 (age 53–54) Geneva
Citizenship	Swiss
Occupation	Senior Software Engineer
Known for	Artificial intelligence Intelligent assistants Siri
Academic background
Education	Electrical engineering Computer science
Alma mater	EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Thesis	Active: a unified platform for building intelligent applications (2008)
Doctoral advisor	Charles Baur
Academic work
Discipline	Computer science
Institutions	Apple Inc.
Website	http://www.apple.com

Didier Guzzoni (born 1970 in Geneva) is a Swiss computer scientist and senior software engineer with the Apple's Siri team. He was a founding member and chief scientist at the start-up company Siri Inc. that was later acquired be Apple Inc.^[1]

Career

Guzzoni studied electrical engineering at the Geneva State Engineering School, followed by studies in computer science at EPFL, where obtained a master's degree in 1996. He then worked with Charles Baur on medical robotics application at EPFL's Virtual Reality and Active Interface group.^[2] In 1997, he moved to Silicon Valley to  join the SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center to work with Luc Julia and Adam Cheyer at on artificial intelligence and robotics.^[3][4][5] Then he was involved in multiple start-ups ranging from mobile robotics to AI-powered B2B platforms, where he collaborated among others with Rajiv Gupta and Shamik Sharma.

In 2004, he returned to EPFL to join Charles Baur's laboratory as a PhD student. His research aimed at facilitating the access on complex artificial intelligence techniques by software developers.^[6]

After his graduation in 2007, together with Tom Gruber and Dag Kittlaus he cofounded and became chief scientist Siri Inc., a start-up company developing a mobile intelligent assistant. The company was acquired in 2010 by Apple Inc., and its technology has been incorporated with most Apple products since 2011. He is a senior software engineer with the Apple's Siri team.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Selected works

Journal papers

• Baur Charles; Guzzoni Didier; Georg Olivier (1998). "Virgy: A Virtual Reality and Force Feedback Based Endoscopic Surgery Simulator". Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 50 (Medicine Meets Virtual Reality): 110–6. doi:10.3233/978-1-60750-894-6-110. PMID 10180525.
• Guzzoni, Didier; Adam Cheyer; Luc Julia; Kurt Konolige (1997). "Many Robots Make Short Work: Report of the SRI International Mobile Robot Team". AI Magazine. 18. doi:10.1609/aimag.v18i1.1274.
• Guzzoni, Didier; et al. (1998). "Robots in a Distributed Agent System." Cognitive Robotics" (PDF). Cognitive Robotics-Papers from the 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium: 61–67.

Thesis

• Guzzoni, Didier (2007). "Active: A unified platform for building intelligent applications". doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-3990. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

Patent

• US 8677377, Cheyer, Adam & Guzzoni, Didier, "Method and apparatus for building an intelligent automated assistant", published 2014-03-18, assigned to Apple Inc. 

References

1. "Didier Guzzoni | BILANZ". Handelszeitung (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-16.
2. Baur, C.; Guzzoni, D.; Georg, O. (1998). "VIRGY: a virtual reality and force feedback based endoscopic surgery simulator". Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 50: 110–116. ISSN 0926-9630. PMID 10180525.
3. "Didier René Guzzoni". www.ai.sri.com. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
4. Guzzoni, Didier; Cheyer, Adam; Julia, Luc; Konolige, Kurt (1997-03-15). "Many Robots Make Short Work: Report of the SRI International Mobile Robot Team". AI Magazine. 18 (1): 55. doi:10.1609/aimag.v18i1.1274. ISSN 2371-9621.
5. Guzzoni, Didier; et al. (1998). "Robots in a Distributed Agent System." Cognitive Robotics" (PDF). Cognitive Robotics-Papers from the 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium: 61–67.
6. Guzzoni, Didier (2007). "Active: A unified platform for building intelligent applications". doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-3990. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
7. "Didier Guzzoni, the Swiss inventor of Siri". House of Switzerland. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
8. "Didier Guzzoni, l'inventeur suisse de Siri: "N'ayons pas peur de l'intelligence artificielle"". Le Temps (in French). 2020-09-25. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
9. "Aujourd'hui en Suisse". SWI swissinfo.ch (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-16.
10. "Startup Champions". www.ifj.ch (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-16.

External links

• Website of Apple Inc.