University of Toronto
Aaron DefazioMember of Technical Staff · OpenAIResearcher↗JK
Researcher
Jamie Kiros
Kiros helped connect language and vision in AI. She co-authored Show, Attend and Tell, which learns where to look in an image while describing it, and developed skip-thought vectors to represent sentence meaning. She also co-authored layer normalization, a method that stabilizes and speeds up neural-network training.
Career & education
Current role
Previously
Google2017-2021Research Scientist
Google2017-2021Education
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.
citations89,845As of Oct 18, '26
citations+2,773Since last snapshot, Jul 1, '26
Selected contributions
GPT-4 Technical Report
With OpenAI, Joshua Achiam, Steven Adler, Sandhini Agarwal, Lama Ahmad, Ilge Akkaya, Florencia Leoni Aleman and others ·Reported GPT-4's capabilities, limitations and safety evaluations as a text-and-image input model.
Layer Normalization
With Jimmy Ba and Geoffrey HintonLayer normalization stabilizes training by rescaling signals within each example.
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