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Kiara Nirghin

Kiara Nirghin

Kiara Nirghin is an award-winning Stanford technologist and bestselling author originally from South Africa. Nirghin gained international recognition at a young age when she won the Google Grand Prize for seminal research in AI algorithms for real-world applications in climate change.

Since then, she has been featured by TIME Magazine’s on their Most Influential Teen list, The Guardian’s Power list, Forbes 30 Under 30, and named one of Glamour Magazine’s College Women of the Year. She’s also a Thiel Fellow and a Y Combinator alum. As a prominent Gen Z sustainability advocate and technologist, she is internationally recognized as a scientific and cultural pioneer for her generation, having already published her first book with Penguin Random House and being a guest contributor to The Economist and TIME 100 Voices.

Beyond her scientific achievements and her contributions to Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, Nirghin demonstrates an extraordinary level of creativity by using her platform to inspire and empower others. She now advocates through both public and private organizations like UN Women, L’Oréal UNESCO for Women in Science, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Nirghin has served as the youngest member of Google’s Impact Fund and is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of one of the fastest growing San Francisco-based Applied AI Research Labs advancing the future of how AI understands the world and builds new ones. The company is backed by prominent venture capital investors like General Catalyst, Alexis Ohanian, and Michael Dell, and serves several Fortune 500 companies and institutions.

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