Luis G. Serrano is a research scientist in quantum artificial intelligence at Zapata Computing, working at the frontier where machine learning meets quantum computing. He is also the author of Grokking Machine Learning, an accessible, intuition-first introduction to the field published by Manning.

His career blends deep technical work with a gift for teaching. Luis has been a Machine Learning Engineer at Google, the Lead Artificial Intelligence Educator at Apple, and the Head of Content in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Udacity, roles that let him shape how thousands of learners meet machine learning for the first time. His academic foundation includes a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, a bachelor’s and master’s in mathematics from the University of Waterloo, and postdoctoral research at the Laboratoire de Combinatoire et d’Informatique Mathématique at the University of Quebec at Montreal.

Luis shares his passion for making complex ideas simple through his YouTube channel on machine learning, which has grown to over 75,000 subscribers and more than 3 million views, and he is a frequent speaker at artificial intelligence and data science conferences around the world.