Scholar
Edward Grefenstette
Google Scholar ID: ezllEwMAAAAJ
Director of Research, Google DeepMind | Honorary Professor, UCL
Citations & Impact
Citations
15,264
H-index
41
i10-index
67
Publications
20
Co-authors
183
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Contributed to early developments in deep learning for language understanding and generation; explored the intersection of reinforcement learning and language; worked on meta-learning and reward modeling.
Research Experience
- - Director of Research at Google DeepMind
- - Head of Machine Learning at Cohere
- - Research Scientist and RL Area Lead at Facebook AI Research (now Meta)
- - Co-founder and CTO of Dark Blue Labs
- - Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College and Lecturer at Hertford College, teaching Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of Oxford
Education
- - DPhil in Computer Science from the University of Oxford
- - Graduate studies in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, focusing on mathematical logic and foundations of mathematics
- - BSc in Physics & Philosophy from the University of Sheffield
Background
- Franco-(British)-American computer scientist, serving as Director of Research at Google DeepMind and an Honorary Professor at UCL. Interested in deep learning, the intersection of reinforcement learning and language, aiming to build AI systems that can match or exceed human capabilities.
Miscellany
- Grew up in Tours and Grenoble, France, and Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
