Sian Gooding
Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSian Gooding is a Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind with a decade of experience bridging academic NLP research and applied ML, currently leading work on reward modeling and alignment for large language models in multi-turn, long-horizon and multi-agent settings. With a PhD from the University of Cambridge, Sian progressed from research internships at Google to research scientist roles and rapid promotion within DeepMind, reflecting both technical depth and impact. Their research focuses on making agent behavior robust over extended interactions, combining theoretical insight with empirical evaluation at scale. Based in the UK, Sian pairs rigorous academic training with hands-on systems experience, often tackling the practical challenges of aligning complex, multi-agent LLM behaviors. An underappreciated strength is their track record of moving ideas from PhD-era NLP foundations into production-relevant alignment techniques used across DeepMind projects.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning at University of CambridgeBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Birmingham
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Github Skills (8)
simplification6
nlp4
pdf3
natural-language-processing3
sentence3
editing2
acl2
interpreter1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
siangooding/lexical_simplification
Nov 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
siangooding/readability_scroll
May 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:56 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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