Artificial intelligence
10 Google DeepMind research scientists
These ten current Google DeepMind research scientists hold research scientist, senior research scientist and staff research scientist roles at the company. A reader can learn what research science at Google DeepMind involves from people who have done it.
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01—10Antonia Creswell
LinkedInExperience: Staff Research Scientist · Google DeepMind
Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind since May 2025, after earlier stints there as Senior Research Scientist (2024–2025 and 2021–2023) and Research Scientist (2019–2021). The profile also lists Founder of BobbyChat (2023–2024), between the two Google DeepMind periods.
Arushi Gupta
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Google DeepMind
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind since March 2024, based in London, working on Gemini. Previous roles include Student Researcher at Google (2022–2023), Intern at Morgan Stanley (2017) and Intern-Financial Modeling Group at BlackRock (2015). The profile lists two consecutive Research Scientist rows at Google DeepMind, from 2024 to 2026 and since April 2026.
Ilya Tolstikhin
LinkedInExperience: Senior Research Scientist · Google DeepMind
Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind since July 2018, based in Zürich, doing research on large language models including multi-step reasoning, tool use and prompting, with the profile also naming Gemma RL. Previous roles include Postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (2014–2018).
James Urquhart Allingham
LinkedInExperience: Senior Research Scientist · Google DeepMind
Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind since May 2026, after serving as Research Scientist there (2024–2026), working on reward models and LLM-as-a-Judge evaluations for Gemini. Previous roles include Research Intern at Google (2022) and Visiting Researcher at University of Amsterdam (2022).
Kai Hui
LinkedInExperience: Staff Research Scientist · Google DeepMind
Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind since November 2025, after serving as Senior Research Scientist there (2024–2025), working on foundation models with a focus on agentic reasoning and pre-training data strategy. Previous roles include Senior Research Software Engineer at Google (2021–2024) and Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon (2019–2021).
Kiran Vodrahalli
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Google DeepMind
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind since April 2023, described on the profile as tech lead for Gemini research initiatives on long-horizon agents and model architecture. Previous roles include Research Scientist at Google (2022–2023) and Student Researcher at Google (2021–2022).
Lijun Yu
LinkedInExperience: Staff Research Scientist · Google DeepMind
Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind since May 2026, after serving as Senior Research Scientist there (2024–2026), working on Gemini. Previous roles include Research Intern Student Researcher at Google (2021–2023) and Co-Founder, Researcher at GamesMind (startup) (2018–2019).
Min Ma
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Google DeepMind
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind since October 2022, based in New York City, with the profile naming Gemini, speech and multimodality and describing R&D for Gemini and Gemma on multimodal multilingual modeling. The profile also lists Software Engineer at Google since 2018.
Mudit Verma
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Google DeepMind
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind since November 2024, based in Mountain View, with the profile naming Gemini Deep Research, LLM agents, planning and RLHF. Previous roles include Research Scientist at Google (2024), Graduate Research Assistant at Arizona State University (2019–2024) and Machine Learning Research Intern at Apple (2023).
Yasaman Bahri
LinkedInExperience: Senior Research Scientist · Google DeepMind
Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind since April 2023, working on AI Foundations and AI for Science. Previous roles include Research Scientist at Google Brain (Google Research) (2018–2023) and Google Brain Residency at Google (2017–2018). The profile also lists Doctoral (Ph.D.) Research Theoretical Condensed Matter at University of California, Berkeley (2012–2017).
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide which research directions are worth pursuing at a large AI lab?
- 02How does research work move from a paper or prototype into a production model?
- 03What evaluation methods do you trust most when measuring progress in large models?
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