University of Toronto
Harvey Mudd College
Sarah SchwettmannCo-Founder, Chief Scientist · TransluceResearcher↗
Researcher · Engineer
Daniel Johnson
Member of Technical Staff at Transluce
Johnson helps make AI systems easier to inspect and test. He created Penzai and Treescope, tools for exploring and modifying neural networks, and co-developed D3PMs, which generate text and other discrete data by learning to reverse a step-by-step corruption process.
Career & education
Current roleTransluceDec 2024-presentMember of Technical Staff
TransluceDec 2024-presentPreviously
Google DeepMindApr 2022-Nov 2024Research Scientist (Google Brain, later Google DeepMind)
CruiseJul 2018-Sep 2019Software Engineer, Perception
Google DeepMindApr 2022-Nov 2024Google BrainOct 2019-Apr 2022
AI Resident; Research Software EngineerCruiseJul 2018-Sep 2019Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations3,482As of Oct 18, '26
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