Koray Kavukcuoglu
SVP of Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect at Google; co-author of the DQN and WaveNet papers
Koray Kavukcuoglu is SVP of Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect at Google, where Google's author page says Kavukcuoglu leads the development of Google DeepMind's generative AI models and their integration into Google products. In an earlier role as VP of Research at Google DeepMind, Kavukcuoglu founded the deep learning team, whose work included DQN and WaveNet. Kavukcuoglu is a co-author of the 2013 paper Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning and the 2016 WaveNet paper, and is listed among the executive sponsors or sponsors of the Gemma, Gemma 2, and Gemma 3 technical reports.1234567
Work
GemmaOpen weights
Listed among the executive sponsors in the 2024 Gemma report, which releases pretrained and fine-tuned checkpoints, and among the sponsors of the Gemma 2 and Gemma 3 technical reports.567
Deep Q-Network (DQN) (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning (2013), which trains a convolutional network with a variant of Q-learning to play Atari 2600 games from raw pixels.31
WaveNet (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of the 2016 WaveNet paper, which introduces an autoregressive neural network for generating raw audio waveforms and applies it to text-to-speech.41
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- VP of Research, Google DeepMind1
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