Petar Veličković
Scholar

Petar Veličković

Google Scholar ID: kcTK_FAAAAAJ
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind | Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge
Geometric Deep LearningGraph Neural NetworksCategorical Deep LearningAlgorithmic Reasoning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
45,309
 
H-index
39
 
i10-index
70
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
191
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Publications: Graph Attention Networks, Deep Graph Infomax; Contributions: substantially improved travel-time predictions in Google Maps, guided mathematicians towards new top-tier theorems and conjectures, developed the first full AI system for tactical suggestions in association football, and achieved the first AI-assisted top-percentile result in competitive programming; Awards: Best Paper Award at NeurIPS'22 GLFrontiers workshop.
Research Experience
  • Positions: Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and an Associate of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College), supervised by Pietro Liò.
Background
  • Research interests: aligning neural networks to (classical) computation, assessing and improving their out-of-distribution generalisation ability; focusing on neural algorithmic reasoning, graph representation learning, categorical and geometric deep learning. Professional field: Computer Science.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests: Not provided.