Cornell University
MIT
Jeff DeanCo-founder and CEO · Discovery LoopResearcher↗
Founder
Sanjay Ghemawat
Discovery LoopCo-founder
Ghemawat helped design the systems that let Google operate at global scale, including MapReduce, the Google File System, Bigtable and Spanner. After a long tenure as one of Google's most influential engineers, he left in 2026 to co-found Discovery Loop.
Career & education
Current roleDiscovery Loop2026-presentCo-founder
Discovery Loop2026-presentPreviously
Google1999-2026Senior Fellow
Google1999-2026Education
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.
citations178,051As of Nov 1, '26
citations+157Since last snapshot, Oct 29, '26
Updates 2
MoveSanjay Ghemawat moves from Google to co-found Discovery Loop
The longtime Google systems researcher is co-founding Discovery Loop with Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le.
August 5, 2026LaunchJeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, Quoc Le, and Sanjay Ghemawat launch Discovery LoopFour longtime Google collaborators founded a public benefit corporation to automate machine learning, science, and engineering.
August 5, 2026Selected contributions
PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways
With Aakanksha Chowdhery, Sharan Narang, Jacob Devlin, Maarten Bosma, Gaurav Mishra, Adam Roberts, Paul Barham and others ·Presented PaLM, a large language model demonstrating gains in reasoning, translation and coding.
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