Azade Nova
Scholar

Azade Nova

Google Scholar ID: 6TOQpT4AAAAJ
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Machine learningLarge Language ModelsMachine Planning and Reasoning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
5,776
 
H-index
17
 
i10-index
21
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
25
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • ICLR 2025: "Improving Large Language Model Planning with Action Sequence Similarity"
  • 2024: Co-authored "Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context"
  • 2024: "Exploring and Benchmarking the Planning Capabilities of Large Language Models"
  • 2024: Co-authored NATURAL PLAN benchmark for LLMs on natural language planning
  • NeurIPS 2024: "UQE: A Query Engine for Unstructured Databases"
  • ICML 2023: "Gradient-Free Structured Pruning with Unlabeled Data" and "Revisiting Sampling for Combinatorial Optimization"
  • NeurIPS 2023 Datasets & Benchmarks: "DISCS: A Benchmark for Discrete Sampling"
  • VLDB 2022: "Maximizing Fair Content Spread via Edge Suggestion in Social Networks"
  • ACM TODS 2022: "On Finding Rank Regret Representatives"
  • DVCON 2021: Two papers on adaptive test generation and coverage optimization
  • Nature 2021: "A graph placement methodology for fast chip design" — deployed in production for Google TPU design, saving thousands of engineering hours
  • ICML 2020: "Scalable Deep Generative Modeling for Sparse Graphs"
  • SIGMOD 2016: "The TagAdvisor: Luring the Lurkers to Review Web Items"
  • VLDB 2016: Demo paper "AD-WIRE: Add-on for Web Item Reviewing System" accepted
  • Awarded "Outstanding Doctoral Student" at 2016 College of Engineering Academic Excellence Ceremony
Research Experience
  • Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
  • Senior Research Scientist at Google Brain
  • Postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research
  • Interned at Microsoft Research DMX group (Summer 2015 and 2016)
  • Former AI Resident at Google AI