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Oriol Vinyals
Discovery LoopCo-founder
🇪🇸 SpanishBorn 1983
Vinyals co-created sequence-to-sequence learning, which helped neural networks translate whole sentences and transformed machine translation.[1] He later led AlphaStar, which learned through trial and error to play StarCraft II at Grandmaster level, tackling long-term strategy while working with incomplete information.[2]
Career & education
Current roleDiscovery Loop2026-presentCo-founder
Discovery Loop2026-presentPreviously
Google DeepMind2016-2026VP of Research
Google2013-2016Senior Research Scientist
Google DeepMind2016-2026Google2013-2016Work 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.
citations479,319As of Nov 1, '26
citations+10,515Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Updates 2
LaunchJeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, Quoc Le, and Sanjay Ghemawat launch Discovery Loop
Four longtime Google collaborators founded a public benefit corporation to automate machine learning, science, and engineering.
August 5, 2026MoveOriol Vinyals leaves Google DeepMind to co-found Discovery LoopThe Gemini co-lead said goodbye after 13 years spanning Google Brain, DeepMind, and Google DeepMind.
August 5, 2026Selected contributions
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
With John Jumper, Richard Evans, Alexander Pritzel, Tim Green, Michael Figurnov, Olaf Ronneberger, Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool and others ·Presented AlphaFold 2, predicting proteins' three-dimensional shapes from their sequences.
Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
With Ilya Sutskever and Quoc V. LeTranslated sequences with two neural networks, allowing inputs and outputs of different lengths.
WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
With Aäron van den Oord, Sander Dieleman, Heiga Zen, Karén Simonyan, Alex Graves, Nal Kalchbrenner, Andrew Senior and others ·WaveNet generates natural-sounding speech directly as a sequence of audio samples.
References
- Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networksarxiv.org
Vinyals co-created sequence-to-sequence learning, which helped neural networks translate whole sentences and transformed machine translation.
- AlphaStar: Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learningdeepmind.google
He later led AlphaStar, which learned through trial and error to play StarCraft II at Grandmaster level, tackling long-term strategy while working with incomplete information.
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