Pushmeet Kohli
Vice President of research at Google DeepMind
A Google DeepMind vice president who leads its science and strategic initiatives, including AlphaFold, AlphaEvolve and SynthID.
Biography
Pushmeet Kohli is an Indian British computer scientist and Vice President of research at Google DeepMind, where he heads the Science and Strategic Initiatives Unit. TIME named him to its list of the 100 most influential people in AI.
He received a BTech in computer science and engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, and a PhD in computer vision from Oxford Brookes University in 2007, supervised by Philip Torr. After a postdoc at the University of Cambridge's Psychometric Centre and a role as partner scientist and director of research at Microsoft Research, he joined DeepMind. He has led and supervised projects including AlphaFold, which predicts protein structures; AlphaEvolve, an evolutionary coding agent; SynthID, a watermarking system for AI-generated content; and Co-Scientist, an agent for generating and testing scientific hypotheses.
Notable contributions
Led work on AlphaFold
Led and supervised AlphaFold, the AI system for predicting the 3D structures of proteins.
Led AlphaEvolve and SynthID
Supervised AlphaEvolve, a general-purpose evolutionary coding agent, and SynthID, a system for watermarking and detecting AI-generated content.
Named to the TIME100 AI list
Was noted by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in AI.
