Researcher

Bart van Merrienboer

Van Merriënboer is a Google DeepMind researcher who co-authored the 2014 attention mechanism for neural machine translation and helped build early deep-learning frameworks like Theano and Blocks.

Career & education

Current role

Google DeepMind2019-present

Research Scientist

Education

University of Warwick

École Polytechnique

University of Gothenburg

Université de Montréal

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

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Researcher

Bart van Merrienboer

Google DeepMindResearch Scientist

Van Merriënboer is a Google DeepMind researcher who co-authored the 2014 attention mechanism for neural machine translation and helped build early deep-learning frameworks like Theano and Blocks.