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Nando de Freitas
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De Freitas advanced Bayesian optimization and deep learning while mentoring an unusually influential group of researchers at UBC and Oxford. He later led research at Google DeepMind and multimodal perception and generation at Microsoft AI.
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Previously
2024-Aug 2026VP of AI, 
Microsoft AI
Microsoft AI2014-2024Senior AI Director, 
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind2013-2024Professor, 
University of Oxford
University of Oxford
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