Contextual AI
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Researcher · Founder · Executive
Douwe Kiela
Google DeepMindResearch Scientist Director
Career & education
Current roleGoogle DeepMind2026-presentResearch Scientist Director
Google DeepMind2026-presentPreviously
Work 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.
citations68,112As of Oct 20, '26
citations+12,397Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks
With Patrick Lewis, Ethan Perez, Aleksandra Piktus, Fabio Petroni, Vladimir Karpukhin, Naman Goyal, Heinrich Küttler and others ·RAG finds relevant documents to help a language model generate better-informed answers.
References
- Contextual AI — Introducing RAG 2.0contextual.ai
Company research account explicitly credits Kiela and his FAIR team with introducing RAG and explains external retrieval.
- Douwe Kiela — personal sitedouwekiela.github.io
Current DeepMind researcher identity and former Contextual AI cofounder/CEO.
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