Not Your Typical AI Talk

Jean (you can call him John) is a research scientist at Google DeepMind in New York on the Gemini Large Scale Pretraining team. Previously, he led a small research team within the Algorithms & Optimization group within Google Research. Before joining Google, he completed a PhD in Computer Science at Harvard University, advised by Edoardo Airoldi and Salil Vadhan, where he was a 2017–2018 Siebel scholar. Prior to that, he completed his undergraduate degree at École Polytechnique in Paris. At the time, he looked into using neural networks to generate new distributions from data.