Yi Tay
Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
California, Singapore
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Top SchoolYi Tay is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind with a decade of experience advancing AI research and product-facing models, currently contributing to the Gemini team from California. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Scientist at Reka AI and was a Senior Research Scientist at Google Brain, combining startup leadership with deep research rigor. Yi holds a PhD and BE in Computer Science from Nanyang Technological University Singapore, grounding his work in strong academic foundations. Known for bridging cutting-edge research and practical deployment, he navigates both foundational model development and product integration. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic scientist who moves projects from novel ideas to scalable systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English
Github Skills (71)
notebook10
python10
mxnet10
datasets10
deep-learning10
recall10
machine-translation10
in-progress10
ai10
recommender-system10
computer-vision10
kaggle10
reinforcement-learning10
gaussian-processes10
google10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vanzytay/pytorch_sentiment_rnn
Jan 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes, 5 comments in 1 year 4 months
vanzytay/CIKM_CUP
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 1 push in 1 year
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