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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.

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Current role
Apr 2019-present
Senior Staff Research Engineer; Gemini Diffusion Tech Lead

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

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Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
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Citation snapshot on Aug 13, '2625,374Aug 13, '26
citations25,374As of Aug 13, '26
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