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Koray Kavukcuoglu

Koray Kavukcuoglu portrait

Senior Vice President at Google DeepMindChief AI Architect at Google

🇹🇷 Turkish

Kavukcuoglu helped build DeepMind's deep-learning program and co-created DQN, which learned to play Atari games from raw screen images, and WaveNet, which made computer-generated speech sound more natural.

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Background

Current roles
Senior Vice President Aug 2026-present
Chief AI Architect 2025-present
Previously
2024-Aug 2026CTO,
2019-2024VP of Research,
2018-2019Director of Research,
2012-2018Research Scientist,
2011-2012Research Scientist,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

News 1

moveKoray Kavukcuoglu steps up to lead Google DeepMind

Kavukcuoglu moved from CTO to Senior Vice President, taking operational leadership of Google DeepMind.

August 5, 2026

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