Archit Sharma is a research scientist at Google DeepMind with a decade of experience advancing deep RL and large-model research, currently working on post-training Gemini models. He completed a PhD at Stanford where he focused on deep reinforcement learning for large language models and generalist robots, and earlier served as an AI Resident at Google Brain. His trajectory includes research stints with Yoshua Bengio at MILA and foundational work in probabilistic ML from IIT Kanpur, reflecting strong theoretical grounding paired with production-oriented model development. Based in Palo Alto, he blends academic rigor with industry impact, and has a track record of turning ideas from synthetic gradients and discrete latent-variable training into practical research outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
High School, High School at DAV Public School, Amritsar
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Archit Sharma - Research Scientist at Google DeepMind