Dr. Ettlinger has a degree in Engineering from Rutgers University and a PhD in Linguistics from UC Berkeley. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience at Northwestern and then ran a lab at the Dept of Veterans Affairs researching neuroscience, language, memory and hearing deficits for people with traumatic brain injury, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s. He has since moved to industry starting at Google where he worked on AI for the Google Assistant, before co-founding Personal AI, a consumer AI startup aiming to address the fallibility of human memory using generative AI. He now works for Reality Labs at Meta, building speech and language technology for AR/VR. He also has advised companies from FinTech (Vise) to Healthcare (Robin Healthcare, Miro) on AI and Natural Language Processing.