Zeynep Cankara
Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolZeynep Cankara is a Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind with eight years of experience scaling reinforcement learning and agent research, currently focused on accelerating Agents work in Gemini. She has driven core contributions across Gemini Thinking, Pre-training, and Human Data, and transitioned from research intern to senior roles by shipping practical systems for language agents and safety-oriented projects like Sparrow. Her background blends strong academic foundations from TUM and Bilkent with hands-on engineering at Google V8 and time-series forecasting work, reflecting fluency from low-level performance tools to large-scale ML. Known for turning research prototypes into reliable infrastructure, she brings a rare mix of production engineering and research rigor to applied RL and agent development.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at National Taiwan UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Technical University of MunichBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Bilkent University
English, Turkish, German, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
svn9
git-mirror8
image-segmentation7
pca7
computer-vision6
pytorch5
v8-javascript-engine5
deep-learning4
image-generation4
v83
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zeynepCankara/terra-mystica
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:56 commits in 3 months
zeynepCankara/Artificial_Intelligence_CS461
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:46 commits in 3 months
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