Nanyang Technological University
Kaushik ShivakumarSenior Research Engineer · Google DeepMindResearcher↗
Researcher · Founder
Yi Tay
Google DeepMindSenior Staff Research Scientist
Tay helped shape Google’s language models, co-leading the design of PaLM 2 and co-developing UL2, which combines different ways of learning from text. He also helped train the Gemini Deep Think model that reached gold-medal standard at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad.[1]
Career & education
Current roleGoogle DeepMind2024-presentSenior Staff Research Scientist
Google DeepMind2024-presentPreviously
Reka AI2023-2024Co-founder and Chief Scientist
Google Brain2019-2023Senior Research Scientist
Reka AI2023-2024Google Brain2019-2023Education
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.
citations79,931As of Oct 23, '26
citations+9,765Since 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.
Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
With Jason Wei, Rishi Bommasani, Colin Raffel, Barret Zoph, Sebastian Borgeaud, Dani Yogatama, Maarten Bosma and others ·Examined abilities that appeared in larger language models but were absent in smaller ones.
References
- Google DeepMind — Gemini Deep Think at IMO 2025deepmind.google
Five of six problems solved, 35 points and officially graded gold-medal-standard performance; Tay named among leads and key contributors.
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