Kristina Toutanova
Scholar

Kristina Toutanova

Google Scholar ID: 9qY7NPEAAAAJ
Google DeepMind
Natural Language ProcessingMachine Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
156,919
 
H-index
32
 
i10-index
56
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
84
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Contact
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Co-author of the seminal BERT paper (NAACL 2019)
  • Contributed to the Natural Questions benchmark (TACL 2019)
  • Co-developed the BoolQ yes/no question answering dataset (NAACL 2019)
  • Published Pix2Struct: Screenshot Parsing for Visual Language Understanding (2022)
  • Authored numerous papers on semantic parsing, compositional generalization, QA, cross-lingual transfer, and text retrieval in top venues (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, TACL, EACL)
  • Long-term collaborator with Kenton Lee, Ming-Wei Chang, Jacob Devlin, and others on foundational NLP research
Background
  • Research Scientist at Google, Seattle
  • Member of the Natural Language Understanding team and Google Research Brain team
  • PhD Mentor at INSAIT (Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology)
  • Affiliate Faculty at the University of Washington
  • Previously worked in NLP teams at Microsoft Research and Stanford University