Mr. StokesProduct Designer
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Experience & Education

As a Product Design lead at Google, I specialize in systems design, applied machine learning, and ambient computing. My core focus lies in architecting the human-interface layer for semi-autonomous systems—establishing the critical interaction models through which humans supervise, correct, and seamlessly collaborate with AI operating in real-time environments.

My academic foundation includes both an M.S. and B.S. in Human-Computer Interaction and Information Technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Joining Google Zurich in 2012, my early tenure centered on defining conversational UI and the interaction models for Google's first generation of smart displays. I subsequently led the design for Duplex on the Web, successfully deploying machine learning to autonomously navigate and execute complex web tasks, and contributed foundational context-awareness features to Google Maps and the original Google Trips.

Based at Google Cambridge, my current work focuses on Android System UI and Intelligence. This scope encompasses screen context understanding, predictive input methods, and multimodal text/image processing. Rather than optimizing isolated applications, my team's mandate is to orchestrate a holistic, adaptive operating system that anticipates user intent. Across 13 years at Google, this systems-first approach has culminated in seven major product launches and five granted or pending patents.

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