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Researcher
Ed H. Chi
Google DeepMindDistinguished Scientist and Sr. Lead, VP of Research
🇺🇸 AmericanBorn 1973
Chi helped develop neural recommendation systems used at Google[2] and initiated work on chain-of-thought prompting, which lets language models improve difficult answers by writing out intermediate reasoning steps.[1] His research connects large language models with recommendation, planning, and human-computer interaction.
Career & education
Current roleGoogle DeepMind2023-presentDistinguished Scientist and Sr. Lead, VP of Research
Google DeepMind2023-presentPreviously
Distinguished Scientist and Sr. Lead2021-2023
Principal Scientist and Team Lead2017-2021
Senior Staff Research Scientist and Team Lead2015-2017
Staff Research Scientist and Tech Lead2011-2015
Area Manager and Principal Scientist2007-2011
Research Scientist1997-2007
Education
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.
citations136,131As of Nov 1, '26
citations+4,851Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
With Jason Wei, Xuezhi Wang, Dale Schuurmans, Maarten Bosma, Brian Ichter, Fei Xia, Quoc V. Le and others ·Showed that examples with reasoning steps can help language models solve harder problems.
Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
With Jason Wei, Yi Tay, Rishi Bommasani, Colin Raffel, Barret Zoph, Sebastian Borgeaud, Dani Yogatama and others ·Examined abilities that appeared in larger language models but were absent in smaller ones.
References
- Ed H. Chi — personal biographyedchi.net
States that he initiated and oversaw LLM reasoning work including co-inventing chain-of-thought, alongside recommendation/planning research.
- Ed H. Chi — research CVedchi.net
Neural recommendation research and YouTube/Google Play product launches.
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Reviewed October 19, 2026 · Checked for accuracy and new information.
