Pushmeet Kohli

VP of Research, Google DeepMind

Pushmeet Kohli is vice president of research at Google DeepMind, where he heads the Science and Strategic Initiatives Unit. He has led AlphaFold, AlphaEvolve and other projects that apply AI to biology, mathematics and code.

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Leading science and AI-for-science research at Google DeepMind.

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Kohli's PhD thesis won the British Machine Vision Association's Sullivan Prize for the best PhD thesis.
His research projects include human pose estimation with Microsoft's Kinect and on predicting personality from online networks.
His research also reaches into physics: learned magnetic confinement control for fusion and a learned density functional for the fractional electron problem.
Time named him to its Time 100 AI list of the most influential people in AI.

Based: London, UK
Nationality: British

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Google DeepMind put a petabyte of DNA predictions behind a search box. The 22% gain only shows up when you pair it with the old methods, and someone still has to pick up the pipette.

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