Oriol Vinyals is a Spanish machine learning researcher currently serving as the VP of Research and Gemini Technical Lead at Google DeepMind. Previously, he worked at Google Brain. His research focuses on understanding and developing new ideas in machine learning, neural networks, and reinforcement learning, particularly within the field of deep learning.

Vinyals led the AlphaStar team, which developed the first agent capable of defeating a professional player in the game of StarCraft.