Kelvin Guu
Principal Research Scientist Director at Google DeepMind
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolKelvin Guu is a principal research scientist and director at Google DeepMind in Palo Alto, leading cutting-edge AI research with over a decade in the field. He pioneered Google's earliest work on retrieval augmentation and instruction following, blending rigorous statistical methods with scalable, real-world systems. Over a career spanning Google and Google DeepMind, he has steered multiple research teams and held senior management roles, following earlier contributions at Greylock X and startups such as MetaMind. He earned a Ph.D. and an MS in Statistics from Stanford and a B.S. in Mathematics from Duke University, underscoring a strong mathematical foundation for his work. Earlier in his career, he contributed to sentence-understanding models as a Google intern, demonstrating a hands-on track record from research prototypes to production-scale NLP.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics at Stanford University
English
Github Skills (54)
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
stanford-nlp9
sanity9
sentiment9
languagetool9
editing9
nlp8
turkish8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kelvinguu/neural-editor
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
nlpsentencesgenerating-sentencesprototypesediting
kelvinguu/lang2program
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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