Fernando Pereira

VP, Engineering Fellow, and research director at Google
Person human Q28016068
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Summary

Fernando Pereira was born on 1952[1] in Lisbon[2]. He has worked as a linguist[3] and computer scientist[4]. He is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[5]

Key Facts

  • Country of citizenship: Portugal[6]
  • Field of work: machine learning[7], natural language processing[8]
  • Position held: president[9]
  • Employer: Google[10]
  • Award received: AAAI Fellow[11], ACM Fellow[12]
  • Member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences[13], Association for Computing Machinery[14]
  • Sex or gender: male[15]
  • Family name: Pereira[16]
  • Given name: Fernando[17]
  • Official website: https://research.google.com/pubs/author1092.html[18]
  • Official blog URL: https://www.earningmyturns.org/[19]
  • Different from: Fernando Pereira[20]
  • Interested in: jazz[21], ski mountaineering[22]
  • Social media followers: 17,364[23], 16,405[24], 17,746[25], 17,953[26]

FAQs

Where was Fernando Pereira born?

Fernando Pereira's place of birth was Lisbon[2].

What did Fernando Pereira do for work?

Fernando Pereira worked as a linguist[3] and computer scientist[4].

What awards did Fernando Pereira receive?

Honors received include AAAI Fellow[11] and ACM Fellow[12].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . portuguese-american-journal.com. portuguese-american-journal.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] ↑ . aclweb.org. aclweb.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [4] ↑ . Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . aaai.org. aaai.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . acm.org. Retrieved . acm.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . amacad.org. amacad.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . acm.org. Retrieved . acm.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [5] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Place of birth → Lisbon
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    National library of israel j9u id → 987007421904805171
    Educated at → University of Lisbon, University of Edinburgh
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