Martin Wattenberg is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard. In addition, Martin is Principal Scientist at Google, where he co-founded the PAIR (People+AI Research) initiative with his long-time collaborator Fernanda Viégas.

His work in machine learning focuses on transparency and interpretability, as part of a broad agenda to improve human/AI interaction. He is well known for his contributions to social and collaborative visualization, and the systems he has created are used daily by millions of people. Martin is also known for visualization-based artwork, which has been exhibited in venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, London Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Whitney Museum of American Art.