People
People at Google DeepMind
63 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document a current or earlier role at Google DeepMind; 36 of them in a current role. Current roles are listed first, then alphabetically. Each profile covers public professional work only. This is not a ranking.
Abigail See
Research Scientist
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind; first author of the pointer-generator summarization paper
Anca Dragan
Heads AI Safety and Alignment (on leave from UC Berkeley)
Heads AI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind; UC Berkeley associate professor who runs the InterACT Lab
Armand Joulin
Gemma Team (lead on the Gemma 2 and Gemma 3 reports; core contributor on the July 2026 Gemma 4 report)
Lead of the Gemma 2 and Gemma 3 reports at Google DeepMind; co-author of Meta's LLaMA and the fastText papers
Clément Farabet
VP of Research
VP of Research at Google DeepMind and Gemma 4 core contributor; formerly NVIDIA's VP of AI infrastructure
David Stutz
Research scientist
Research scientist at DeepMind; first author of the SynthID Bio protein watermarking paper
David Wadden
Research scientist, working on post-training for Gemini
Research scientist at Google DeepMind on Gemini post-training; former Ai2 researcher on OLMo and Tülu
Douwe Kiela
Researcher
Researcher at Google DeepMind; co-founder and former CEO of Contextual AI; co-author of the RAG paper
Hado van Hasselt
Research scientist
Research scientist at Google DeepMind working on reinforcement learning; first author of Double DQN
Heiga Zen
Principal Scientist (from June 2023)
Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind; WaveNet co-author and an original author of HTS speech synthesis
Henrique Schechter Vera
Research Engineer
Google DeepMind research engineer; first author of the EmbeddingGemma paper
Ian R. McKenzie
Research Engineer (since September 2025)
Google DeepMind research engineer; lead author of the Inverse Scaling paper and FAR.AI's STACK study
João Carreira
Research Scientist
Research scientist at Google DeepMind; co-creator of the Kinetics dataset and the Perception Test
Kaiming He
Distinguished Scientist (part-time)
First author of ResNet, Mask R-CNN and MAE; MIT associate professor and part-time scientist at Google DeepMind
Koray Kavukcuoglu
SVP, Google DeepMind
SVP of Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect at Google; co-author of the DQN and WaveNet papers
Kristina Toutanova
Research scientist
Research scientist at Google DeepMind and University of Washington affiliate faculty; co-author of BERT
Lila Ibrahim
Chief AI Readiness Officer
Chief AI Readiness Officer at Google DeepMind; the lab's first Chief Operating Officer
Logan Kilpatrick
Works on Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, enabling developers to build with Gemini
Works on helping developers build with Gemini at Google DeepMind; co-host of Around the Prompt
Mathieu Blondel
Research scientist
Research scientist at Google DeepMind; former lead developer of JAXopt and former scikit-learn core developer
Nataniel Ruiz
AI researcher working on pre-training of generative models
Researcher on generative model pre-training at Google DeepMind; lead author of DreamBooth
Neel Nanda
Runs the mechanistic interpretability team
Runs the Google DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team; creator of the TransformerLens library
Noam Shazeer
Vice President, Google DeepMind
Vice President at Google DeepMind; co-author of the Transformer paper and the mixture-of-experts layer
Omar Sanseviero
Developer Experience Lead
Developer Experience Lead at Google DeepMind, working on Gemma launches and developer guides
Oriol Vinyals
Vice President, Google DeepMind
Vice President at Google DeepMind; co-author of sequence-to-sequence learning and the TensorFlow white paper
Paige Bailey
Engineering lead; Developer Experience Lead
Engineering lead for developer experience at Google DeepMind; contributor to the first Gemma open models
Philipp Schmid
Staff Engineer (Developer Experience and Developer Relations)
Staff Engineer for developer experience at Google DeepMind; former Technical Lead at Hugging Face
Pushmeet Kohli
Vice President
Vice President at Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Google Cloud; AlphaFold co-author
Razvan Pascanu
Research Scientist
Research Scientist at DeepMind; contributor to Theano and first author of a study of RNN training difficulties
Roy Frostig
Research scientist
Co-author and core developer of JAX; research scientist at Google DeepMind
Sahil Dua
Research Engineer
Google DeepMind research engineer; co-author of EmbeddingGemma and co-writer of the EmbeddingGemma 2 launch
Shane Legg
Co-Founder and Chief AGI Scientist
Co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist of Google DeepMind; leads its AGI Safety Council
Shimon Whiteson
Research Director
Oxford professor of computer science and Research Director at Google DeepMind; works on multi-agent RL
Shixiang Shane Gu
Senior Staff Research Scientist (Gemini Thinking team)
Senior staff research scientist at Google DeepMind on Gemini; co-author of Gumbel-Softmax and zero-shot CoT
Timothy Lillicrap
Director of Research
Director of Research at Google DeepMind and CIFAR program co-director; works on deep RL for control
Tom Schaul
Senior staff research scientist; leads a reinforcement learning team
Google DeepMind senior staff research scientist and RL team lead; Prioritized Experience Replay author
Volodymyr Mnih
Research scientist
Research scientist at Google DeepMind; first author of the deep Q-network (DQN) and A3C papers
Adam Gleave
Research intern (2019 and 2021) (earlier role)
Co-founder and CEO of FAR.AI; researcher on adversarial robustness and reward learning
Alex Graves
Author affiliated with Google DeepMind on the 2016 Nature paper on the differentiable neural computer (earlier role)
First author of Neural Turing Machines and of the Google DeepMind differentiable neural computer paper
Arthur Conmy
Senior Research Engineer (2023–2026) (earlier role)
Anthropic Member of Technical Staff; former Google DeepMind senior research engineer; ACDC first author
Arthur Mensch
Equal-contribution author of the RETRO (2021) and Chinchilla (2022) papers, written at DeepMind (earlier role)
Co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI; equal-contribution author of DeepMind's Chinchilla scaling paper
Azalia Mirhoseini
Industry AI lab role, working on Gemini among other projects (earlier role)
Stanford assistant professor directing Scaling Intelligence; co-founder of Ricursive Intelligence
Beth Barnes
Worked with DeepMind's Chief Scientist on scaling laws for forecasting deep learning progress (earlier role)
Founder and CEO of METR, a research nonprofit that evaluates the autonomous capabilities of frontier AI models
Dani Yogatama
Senior staff research scientist (2016 to 2022) (earlier role)
Co-founder and CEO of Reka and associate professor of computer science at USC
Danqi Chen
Research scientist (earlier role)
Princeton associate professor co-leading the Princeton NLP Group; co-author of RoBERTa and SimCSE
David Silver
Led the reinforcement learning team (earlier role)
CEO of Ineffable Intelligence and UCL professor; formerly led DeepMind's reinforcement learning team
Diederik P. Kingma
Research Scientist (2018–2024) (earlier role)
Researcher at Anthropic; first author of the Variational Autoencoder and Adam optimizer papers
Gabe Pereyra
Research scientist (before 2022) (earlier role)
President and co-founder of Harvey; co-author of the post introducing Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark
Ian Goodfellow
Principal Scientist (as listed in 2023) (earlier role)
First author of the Generative Adversarial Networks paper and co-author of the Deep Learning textbook
Jan Leike
Alignment researcher (earlier role)
Leads the Alignment Science team at Anthropic; formerly co-led Superalignment at OpenAI
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
Principal Scientist (2023–2024); earlier Senior Staff Research Scientist, Staff Research Scientist, and Senior Research Scientist (2015–2023) (earlier role)
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; first author of the 2015 paper that introduced diffusion models
Jeff Clune
Senior Research Advisor (earlier role)
UBC professor and Recursive co-founder; former OpenAI research manager and Senior Research Advisor to DeepMind
Justin Fu
Research intern (2019–2020) (earlier role)
Research scientist at Waymo Research and lead developer of the open-source Waymax driving simulator
Laurent Sartran
Listed with DeepMind on the Transformer Grammars paper (2022) (earlier role)
First author of Transformer Grammars at DeepMind and co-author of the SynJax library for JAX
Misha Denil
Research Scientist (10 years) (earlier role)
Former Google DeepMind research scientist whose work includes data-driven robotics and learned optimizers
Mustafa Suleyman
Co-founder (earlier role)
Co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, now CEO of Microsoft AI pursuing humanist superintelligence
Nicholas Carlini
Research scientist (2023–2025) (earlier role)
Research scientist at Anthropic working on machine learning security; formerly at Google Brain and DeepMind
Richard Sutton
Co-founder of Google DeepMind Alberta (2017) (earlier role)
University of Alberta professor of computing science; co-founded Google DeepMind Alberta in 2017
Saining Xie
Research scientist, GenAI team (earlier role)
Co-founder and CSO of AMI Labs and NYU assistant professor; co-creator of DiT and co-author of ConvNeXt
Stephen Roller
Senior Staff Research Scientist (earlier role)
Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab; co-first author of OPT; dialogue and LLM work at Meta FAIR
Thibault Sottiaux
Led human data work for Gemini; built AI/ML workflow infrastructure for DeepMind research (earlier role)
Leads Codex, OpenAI's software engineering agent, after guiding Gemini human data work at Google DeepMind
Tuomas Haarnoja
Research Scientist (earlier role)
First author of Soft Actor-Critic and a bipedal robot soccer paper; joined DeepMind after a Berkeley PhD
Woosuk Kwon
Research Scientist (March 2024 – May 2025) (earlier role)
Co-creator and lead maintainer of vLLM; co-founder and CTO of Inferact
Zhuohan Li
Research Intern (May 2021–April 2024) (earlier role)
Co-creator and lead maintainer of vLLM; AI Research Scientist at Meta focusing on inference
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