Orhan Firat, PhD
Research Scientist
Google DeepMind

I'm a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, NYC working on the intersection of Machine Learning and Natural Language Understanding. 

I specialize in the development and deployment of Large Language Models (LLM) and related research. I have been involved in or led numerous LLM projects in the past, such as PaLM 2, PaLM 1, GLaM, M4-Multipod, GShard, GPipe, and M4.

I currently oversee the evaluation team of the Gemini Program (see Gemini 1.0 and Gemini 1.5)

Professional & Education

  • Google DeepMind (since 2023): Research Scientist
  • Google (2017-2023): Research Scientist
  • Meta (2016-2017): Visiting Researcher
  • IBM (2015-2016): Research Scholar
  • MILA (2014-2015) Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute: PhD Researcher

🎓  PhD Thesis: "Connectionist Multi-Sequence Modeling with Applications to Multilingual Neural Machine Translation"
Advised by Dr. Fatos Yarman Vural (METU) and Dr. Kyunghyun Cho (NYU) 

 


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The Future of AI: Trends and Predictions
21 January 2024
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21 January 2024
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