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Oriol Vinyals: Co-Leading Gemini at Google DeepMind

Oriol Vinyals — DeepMind VP and Gemini co-lead behind seq2seq and AlphaStar. Key achievements:

  • Co-invented the seq2seq model for machine translation (2014)
  • Led the AlphaStar project, reaching Grandmaster level at StarCraft II (2019)
  • Contributed to the AlphaFold protein-structure breakthrough
  • Serves as a technical/research lead on Google's Gemini models
  • VP of Research at Google DeepMind

Read more: Google Research — Oriol Vinyals · Sequence to Sequence Learning (arXiv)

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