Henrique Schechter Vera
Google DeepMind research engineer; first author of the EmbeddingGemma paper
- Research Engineer, Google DeepMind1
Henrique Schechter Vera is a research engineer at Google DeepMind. Schechter Vera is first author of "EmbeddingGemma: Powerful and Lightweight Text Representations" (2025), the paper describing the open EmbeddingGemma 300M text embedding model, and co-wrote the October 2026 launch post for EmbeddingGemma 2. Schechter Vera is also a co-author of the Gemini Embedding paper (2025).123
Research
Schechter Vera's recent papers concern text embedding models. Schechter Vera co-authored the Gemini Embedding paper in March 2025 and was first author of the EmbeddingGemma paper in September 2025, which introduced a lightweight open embedding model built on Gemma.321
In October 2026 Schechter Vera and Sahil Dua, both research engineers at Google DeepMind, wrote the Google blog post introducing EmbeddingGemma 2.1
Work
EmbeddingGemma 300MOpen weights
First author of the EmbeddingGemma paper (2025), which presents the lightweight open text embedding model.2
EmbeddingGemma 2Open weights
Co-author, with Sahil Dua, of Google's October 2026 launch post for EmbeddingGemma 2.1
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