Cedric Dupont

Cedric Dupont is a group product manager in search ads focusing on ad quality.  In his current role, he is responsible for local ads, audiences and contextual targeting.

Before joining AdWords he worked on local advertising formats on Google’s Ads & Commerce team. Prior to working in Ads he helped develop location and mapping technologies for Google Maps and before that he was part of the websearch team responsible for the personalization of search results.

Prior to Google Cedric was a research engineer at VW working on driver assistance systems. An autonomous vehicle enthusiast, he was the vehicle lead for the first team to win the DARPA Grand Challenge.

Cedric holds a master’s degree in mecatronics from UCL, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University as well as an MBA from UC Berkeley.