Senior staff research scientist at Google DeepMind, feeding Gemini.
About
I work on building new capabilities into Gemini. Most of that comes down to what the models learn from, and how to make it better.
I joined Google Research in 2016. Earlier I worked on question answering and how to evaluate it, on claim verification, on what language models say about climate, and on scalable oversight. My publications cover that work. Most of what I do now is not published.
Before Google I completed my PhD at the Computer Lab in Cambridge, under the supervision of Prof. Anuj Dawar. My research there centred on algorithm design, complexity theory, graph theory and model theory; my dissertation investigates the parameterized complexity of distances to sparse graph classes. I also hold an MSc in Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Imperial College London.