Christopher Gagne
Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Gagne is a staff research scientist and AI generalist with a decade of experience translating computational neuroscience and cognitive science into production-grade multimodal AI. He has led research and engineering teams at Hume AI to build real-time speech-text LLMs (EVI 1–3) and architected novel RLHF/RLVR pipelines to improve voice realism and dynamic modulation. His academic work under Peter Dayan and at Berkeley blends distributional and risk-sensitive reinforcement learning with Bayesian hierarchical modeling to illuminate decision-making, mental simulation, and psychiatric phenomena. Now at Google DeepMind, he bridges cutting-edge research and productization, combining large-scale data pipelines (>1M hours processed) with principled evaluation frameworks. Less obvious: he has a track record of turning theoretical constructs (CVaR, risk-sensitive Bellman equations) into practical probes of LLM behavior and speech systems. Based in New York, he excels at uniting rigorous theory, scalable engineering, and interdisciplinary teams to push multimodal AI toward human-like conversational capabilities.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cognitive Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cognitive Neuroscience at University of California, BerkeleyBS BA Psychology (Neuroscience conc.) Philosophy, BS BA Psychology (Neuroscience conc.) Philosophy at Boston College
Github Skills (22)
bayesian-statistics10
variational-inference10
probabilistic-programming10
python10
statistical-inference10
mcmc10
bayesian10
probabilistic10
probabilistic-models10
bayesian-inference10
modeling10
machine-learning9
regression7
clustering7
classification7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
crgagne/volatility_paper_elife
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 6 pushes, 1 comment in 9 months
crgagne/mturk_website
Apr 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:111 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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