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Former Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, where he worked on advancing the research, development, and real-world deployment of cutting-edge AI systems. His work at Google spanned neural machine translation, state-of-the-art dialogue and multimodal models, and emerging approaches to agentic reasoning, contributing to major efforts across the Gemini model family and their integration into production products such as Google AI Mode. He holds a strong conviction that open-ended knowledge creation is the defining capability required for higher-order machine intelligence, and is dedicated to advancing this frontier - from theoretical foundations to practical, scalable systems - to accelerate scientific discovery and amplify human research capabilities.