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Researcher
Sander Dieleman
Google DeepMindResearch Scientist
Dieleman has helped shape modern AI across games and generative media. He co-authored the AlphaGo paper and contributed to WaveNet, Lyria, Imagen, and Veo. His research focuses on diffusion models, which create media by repeatedly refining noise, and on learning useful structure in sound, images, and video.
Career & education
Current roleGoogle DeepMind2015-presentResearch Scientist
Google DeepMind2015-presentEducation
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.
citations58,934As of Aug 8, '26
Selected contributions
Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search
With David Silver, Aja Huang, Chris J. Maddison, Arthur Guez, Laurent Sifre, George van den Driessche, Julian Schrittwieser and others ·AlphaGo combined neural networks and search to beat a professional Go player.
WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
With Aäron van den Oord, Heiga Zen, Karén Simonyan, Oriol Vinyals, Alex Graves, Nal Kalchbrenner, Andrew Senior and others ·WaveNet generates natural-sounding speech directly as a sequence of audio samples.
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