2025 Recipients


Lu Wang


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Lu Wang | Electrical Engineering

Senior Staff Engineering Manager, Google

Lu Wang has spearheaded multiple strategic and high-impact initiatives that have enabled features across major device platforms and products at Google. She has rapidly advanced from engineer to her current position of senior staff engineering manager. Her core innovation is democratizing access to on-device machine learning (ODML) and GenAI, making those technologies accessible to both Google product teams and external developers. She initiated and delivered the company's first on-device GenAI capabilities, leading to the successful production of ODML across Android, Chrome, and ChromeOS. Her team's work has empowered more than 100 Google product features, thousands of third-party applications, millions of monthly downloads, and billions of total Android installs - making ODML creation and deployment accessible at scale.

When GenAI arose in early 2023, she founded a pioneering work group to explore running large language models (LLMs) on mobile accelerators (CPU, GPU, and NPU). Despite early skepticism, her leadership enabled Google to achieve industry-first on-device GenAI features in text and image generation in products including Gemini Nano and Android and Chrome, Gemma and Open-weights models on LiteRT-LM, Juno Nano and ChromeOS and Pixel. Her earlier work, MediaPipe Solutions, has been adopted by major companies like Walmart, Chase and Best Buy. The LiteRT framework, she now drives, is a cornerstone of Google's ODML strategy addressing critical industry demands for on-device ML & Gen AI model deployment.

Wang is a skilled cross-functional collaborator, aligning efforts across 20+ teams and 100+ engineers and 10+ industry partners. She is also a recognized thought leader sharing her expertise through talks and keynotes at more than 10 premier developer events and at every Google I/O event in the last 10 years.