Zoubin Ghahramani
Vice President of Research at Google DeepMind and Professor at the University of Cambridge
A Bayesian machine learning researcher who headed Google Brain and is a vice president of research at Google DeepMind and professor at Cambridge.
Biography
Zoubin Ghahramani FRS is a British-Iranian machine learning and AI researcher, Vice President of Research at Google DeepMind and Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He earned a dual degree in cognitive science and computer science at the University of Pennsylvania in 1990 and a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at MIT, supervised by Michael I. Jordan and Tomaso Poggio, then worked as a postdoc at the University of Toronto with Geoffrey Hinton.
He was on the faculty of the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London from 1998 to 2005, was chief scientist of Uber from 2016 to 2020, and joined Google Brain in 2020, becoming a VP of research in 2021 and heading Google Brain until its merger with DeepMind. His work spans Bayesian machine learning, variational inference, graphical models and nonparametric Bayesian modelling, with over 300 papers. He was a founding Cambridge liaison director of the Alan Turing Institute and led the UK's Future of Compute Review in 2023.
Notable contributions
Advanced Bayesian machine learning
Made significant contributions to Bayesian machine learning, particularly variational methods for approximate inference, as well as graphical models and nonparametric Bayesian modelling.
Headed Google Brain
Joined Google Brain in 2020 and led it as a VP of research until its merger with DeepMind to form Google DeepMind.
Led the UK Future of Compute Review
Led the UK's Future of Compute Review in 2023 and contributed to the Royal Society's 2017 Machine Learning Report.
