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Researcher · Engineer
Shantanu Thakoor
Google DeepMindSenior Staff Research Engineer; Gemini Diffusion Tech Lead
Thakoor led the technical development of Gemini Diffusion, an experimental language model that generates and revises whole blocks of text in parallel rather than predicting one token at a time. A core Gemini contributor, he has also worked across reinforcement learning, multimodal models, and neural-network verification.
Career & education
Current role
Google DeepMindApr 2019-presentSenior Staff Research Engineer; Gemini Diffusion Tech Lead
Google DeepMindApr 2019-presentEducation
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Stanford University
IIT Bombay
