Columbia University
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Researcher · Academic
Vinodkumar Prabhakaran
GoogleSenior Staff Research Scientist
Prabhakaran studies how AI can reproduce social biases and misunderstand people from different cultures. His work brings affected communities into the design and evaluation process so that language technologies better reflect varied values, identities and experiences.
Career & education
Current roleGoogle2025-presentSenior Staff Research Scientist
Google2025-presentPreviouslyGoogle2023-2025Research Scientist -> Staff Research Scientist
Stanford University2015-2018Postdoc
Google2023-2025Stanford University2015-2018Education
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.
citations20,707As of Oct 20, '26
citations+1,680Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '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.
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