# Thi Avrahami

> product person

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/thiavrahami

Make products awesome for all users.

## Work Experience
### Group Product Manager, Generative AI @ Google DeepMind
Jan 2024 – Present
Apply ground-breaking research to improve  quality for generative AI foundation models.

### Product Lead, AI / ML & Generative AI, Google Research @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
Make products safer and work better for all users.
Led safer and more inclusive feature launches for numerous products across Google, including YouTube, Ads, Cloud, and Workspace.

### Head of Product @ Rulai, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2022
Rulai is a low-code enterprise platform for creating AI chatbots.
• G2 Product Leader and High Performer (2020 - 2022)
• Forbes AI 50 - America's Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies (2019)
• Gartner Market Guide for Conversational Platforms (2019)
• Gartner Cool Vendor in AI for Conversational Platforms (2018)
• Forrester New Wave: Conversational Computing Platforms (2018)
• Bloomberg 50 Most Promising Startups (2017)
• Customers included Michelin, Twitch, CVS, Zenni, Lyft, Paddle, Aimco

### Principal Product Designer @ Like Poetry UX
Jan 2007 – Jan 2017
For VMware, Intuit, NCQTL, Apex Learning, Edmentum, Waiter.com, Sociometrics and other clients, delivered projects across multiple sectors, especially in education and B2B software. 
Securing stakeholder buy-in, provided end-to-end design expertise for finding meaningful and actionable user insights through user research and product evaluation. Guided organizational thinking to improve design systems and culture.

### Lead, Product & Design @ mSpoke, acquired by LinkedIn
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007
Smart content recommendation system using adaptive AI based on a combination of the user’s explicit preferences and implicit viewing habits. Focus on UI for transparent & explainable AI

### Principal Research Programmer @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 1999 – Jan 2005
LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE - Lead on the Lemur Project, an open-source toolkit for language modeling, NLP, and IR. Additional projects for the EPA, Northrop Grumman, and US FedStats.

ROBOTICS INSTITUTE - Intelligent Software Agents Lab working on autonomous agents in a multi-agent environment

### Software Engineer @ Aptex/HNC Software, acquired by FICO
Jan 1997 – Jan 1999
Targeted content delivery using AI/ML

### Software Engineer @ Blue Sky Software
Jan 1995 – Jan 1997
Video games!


## Education
### MS in Human Computer Interaction
Carnegie Mellon University

### BS in Cognitive Science with Specialization in Computation (AI)
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thiavrahami

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Last updated: 2026-04-13