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Academic Achievements
- Recipient of multiple Best Paper Awards (ACL'11, NAACL'12, ACL'16, 10-year Test-of-Time Award at ACL'23); Recipient of the 2014 John Atanasoff Award by the President of Bulgaria; World Champion at RoboCup 2004.
Research Experience
- Provides better language capabilities to billions of users in a variety of Google products spanning Web Search, Assistant, Ads, Translate & Cloud.
Education
- PhD from the University of California at Berkeley
Background
- Vice President, Research at Google DeepMind; Co-leads Post-Training for Gemini, Google's large models effort; Taught Statistical Natural Language Processing at New York University for many years.
Miscellany
- Has spent roughly equal parts of his life in Bulgaria, Germany and the US; Supports Bulgaria whenever it plays Germany in soccer.
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