Pushmeet Kohli
Vice President at Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Google Cloud; AlphaFold co-author
- Vice President, Google DeepMind13
- Chief Scientist, Google Cloud1
Pushmeet Kohli is Vice President at Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Google Cloud. Google's author page says Kohli leads Google DeepMind's AI for Science and Strategic Initiatives Unit, whose work spans biology, materials, fusion, math, software and cybersecurity, and lists AlphaFold, AlphaEvolve and AI co-scientist among Kohli's key work. Kohli is a co-author of the 2021 Nature paper Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold. Before Google DeepMind, Kohli was Director of Research for the Cognition group at Microsoft Research.12
Career
Kohli was formerly Director of Research for the Cognition group at Microsoft Research. At Google DeepMind, Kohli is a Vice President and leads the AI for Science and Strategic Initiatives Unit, whose work spans biology, materials, fusion, mathematics, software and cybersecurity. Google also names Kohli as Chief Scientist of Google Cloud.13
Research
Kohli is a co-author of the 2021 Nature paper describing AlphaFold's highly accurate protein structure prediction. With colleagues at Google DeepMind, Kohli also co-authored FunSearch, published in Nature in December 2023, which paired a large language model with an evaluator to search for programs that yield new mathematical results.24
Google lists the 2025 AI co-scientist among Kohli's key work, a multi-agent system built on Gemini to help scientists generate research hypotheses, along with AlphaEvolve, an evolutionary coding agent that uses language models to improve algorithms for open scientific problems and computing infrastructure.156
Work
AlphaFold (external site: nature.com)Published research
Co-author of Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold (Nature, 2021); Google's author page lists AlphaFold among Kohli's key work.21
AlphaEvolve and AI co-scientistProprietary product
Google's author page lists the language-model-based agents AlphaEvolve and AI co-scientist among Kohli's key work.1
SynthID TextOpen-source code
Co-author of the 2024 Nature paper on SynthID Text watermarking, which the repository README asks users to cite.7
SynthID BioOpen-source code
Co-author of the Nature paper on function-preserving watermarking of AI-generated proteins, which the SynthID Bio README asks users to cite.8
AlphaProtein NovoPublished research
Co-author of the bioRxiv paper on designing enzymes with AlphaProtein Novo, which the repository README asks users to cite.9
Career timeline
Jul 15, 2021
Co-authored the Nature paper on highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold.2
Dec 14, 2023
Co-authored the FunSearch paper on mathematical discoveries from program search with language models.4
Feb 26, 2025
Co-authored the paper introducing Google's AI co-scientist system.5
Jun 16, 2025
Co-authored the AlphaEvolve white paper on a coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery.6
Feb 18, 2026
Co-wrote a Google post on accelerating discovery in India through AI-powered science and education.3
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Director of Research, Cognition group, Microsoft Research1
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