
Nicolas HeessResearcher
Google DeepMind
Director of Robotics, Research Scientist
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Researcher

Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Gu helped robots learn complex movements from fewer physical trials, reducing the time and wear involved in real-world training. He later contributed to instruction-tuned language models and zero-shot chain-of-thought prompting, which showed that a simple reasoning cue could sharply improve performance. He now works on Gemini reasoning.
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