Scholar
Viren Jain
Google Scholar ID: vXqLMtkAAAAJ
Google Research
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,113
H-index
24
i10-index
31
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- With partners at HHMI, Max Planck, and Harvard, achieved several milestones in synapse-resolution brain mapping (press about fly and human brain work), developed Neuroglancer (widely used software for visualizing multidimensional data in the browser) and TensorStore (infrastructure for managing petascale multidimensional data; used, for example, to manage checkpoints of nearly all large-scale LLMs trained at Google), and published numerous ML algorithms and advances for interpreting 3d images.
Research Experience
- Currently a Research Scientist at Google in Mountain View, California, leading the Connectomics team. Was a Laboratory Head at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus from 2011-2013. Serves on the Scientific Advisory Council of the Allen Institute for Brain Science and on the Advisory Board for the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative Imaging program.
Education
- Completed undergraduate education at the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in Computer Science and Cognitive Science in 2004, followed by a PhD in Computation at MIT.
Background
- scientist, engineer, drummer, optimist, pessimist, coffee-drinker, earth-dweller, spell-check user, tagline enthusiast, etc
Miscellany
- Interests include drumming, drinking coffee, etc.
Co-authors