Scholar
Eleftheria Briakou
Google Scholar ID: bxqqNFEAAAAJ
Research Scientist at Google Research
Citations & Impact
Citations
841
H-index
12
i10-index
12
Publications
20
Co-authors
15
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Her doctoral thesis won the Best Thesis Award from the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas; she now serves as a Research Director there.
Research Experience
- She is a Senior Research Scientist at Google, working on the Gemini family of language models.
Education
- She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was a member of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) lab. Her dissertation on detecting fine-grained semantic divergences to improve translation understanding won the Best Thesis Award from the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, where she now serves as a Research Director.
Background
- Her research focuses on how data quality and distributional structure shape intelligence, and how to create pluralistic alignment frameworks that reflect many cultures and languages. Her goal is to design AI that learns from everyone and serves everyone.
