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Slav Petrov
Google DeepMindVP Research
Petrov co-leads Gemini, Google’s family of AI models that work across text, images, audio, and video.[1] Earlier, he helped develop SyntaxNet, an open-source tool for identifying how words fit together in sentences.[2] His language-understanding research has powered Google Search, Translate, and other products.
Career & education
Current roleGoogle DeepMind2009-presentVP Research
Google DeepMind2009-presentPreviously
New York University2010-2016Adjunct Professor
New York University2010-2016Education
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.
citations69,762As of Oct 20, '26
citations+5,183Since last snapshot, Aug 8, '26
Selected 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.
References
- Slav Petrov — Google Researchresearch.google
Official biography confirms Gemini co-lead and product impact in Search, Translate and other Google products.
- Google Research — Announcing SyntaxNetresearch.google
Credits Petrov among main developers and explains grammatical parsing.
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