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Jonathon Shlens

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Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind

🇺🇸 American

Shlens co-authored early work explaining adversarial examples—tiny changes that can make image models confidently wrong—and helped develop Inception, a family of influential vision models. The research clarified a fundamental weakness in neural networks and helped establish adversarial training as a defense.

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Background

Current role
Principal Scientist 2023-present
Previously
2021-2023Senior Research Scientist / Research Manager,
2010-2021
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 7, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26190,608179,375168,142Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
178,970citations as of Sep 1, '26-11,638 since Aug 1, '26
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