Pushmeet Kohli — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Recognized by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in AI.
Serves as Vice President of research at Google DeepMind, heading the Science and Strategic Initiatives Unit.
Led and supervised AlphaFold, a breakthrough AI system for predicting 3D protein structures.
Oversaw SynthID, a system for watermarking and detecting AI-generated content.
Contributed to AlphaCode for competition-level code generation and FunSearch for discovering algorithms using LLMs.
Earned a PhD in computer vision from Oxford Brookes University in 2007.

Biography

Pushmeet Kohli is an Indian British computer scientist and the Vice President of research at Google DeepMind. In this role, he leads the Science and Strategic Initiatives Unit, focusing on developing, applying, and securing AI systems. Time magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential people in AI on its Time 100 AI list.

Kohli has led and supervised a range of significant AI projects.