Soulaiman leads a team of next-generation applied AI at Google, and launched the first user-facing instance of LaMDA (the AI some claim is sentient) last year. PS, it's not. He has led several teams at Google, including an ads product that he helped grow from $64M to $1.5B in one year. Before Google, Soulaiman started Atheer in 2011, a leader in the AR/VR industry. By 2013, Atheer had full head-mounted glasses with gesture, voice, and head motion interface. Atheer has more than a hundred patents, and Solomon is the inventor on more than half of them.

In his postdoc, Soulaiman did cancer research at UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Stanford University, as well as researching brain-controlled exoskeletons. Soulaiman's PhD focus was on drones, but he also published on protein signaling networks and bioinformatics, and applied mathematics (matrix factorization algorithms). Soulaiman has also consulted as an expert with McKinsey and several governments, on a large range of projects from microclimate and airport redesign, to worker upskilling, education strategy, tourism optimization, and scalable medical tracking and diagnosis.