Oriol Vinyals

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Oriol Vinyals
Born1983 (age 4041)
Education Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Berkeley
Known for seq2seq
AlphaStar
Scientific career
Institutions Google
DeepMind
Thesis Beyond Deep Learning: Scalable Methods and Models for Learning  (2013)
Doctoral advisor Nelson Morgan

Oriol Vinyals (born 1983) is a Spanish machine learning researcher at DeepMind. [1] [2] He is currently technical lead on Gemini, along with Noam Shazeer and Jeff Dean.

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Education and career

Vinyals was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. [3] He studied mathematics and telecommunication engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. [4] He then moved to the US and studied for a Master's degree in computer science at University of California, San Diego, and at University of California, Berkeley, where he received his PhD in 2013 under Nelson Morgan in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. [4] [5]

Vinyals co-invented the seq2seq model for machine translation along with Ilya Sutskever and Quoc Viet Le. [6] He led AlphaStar research group at DeepMind, which applies artificial intelligence to computer games such as StarCraft II. [7]

In 2016, he was chosen by the magazine MIT Technology Review as one of the 35 most innovative young people under 35. [8] [9]

By 2022 he was a principal research scientist at DeepMind. [10] His research in DeepMind is regularly featured in the mainstream media [11] [12] [13] As of August 2024, he is currently technical lead on Gemini, along with Noam Shazeer and Jeff Dean. [14]

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