Oriol Vinyals

Oriol Vinyals
Born	1983 (age 41–42) Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain
Education	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya University of California, San Diego University of California, Berkeley
Known for	seq2seq AlphaStar
Scientific career
Institutions	Google DeepMind
Thesis	Beyond Deep Learning: Scalable Methods and Models for Learning (2013)
Doctoral advisor	Nelson Morgan

Oriol Vinyals (born 1983) is a Spanish machine learning researcher at DeepMind.[1][2] He is currently technical lead on Gemini, along with Noam Shazeer and Jeff Dean.

Education and career

Vinyals was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.[3] He studied mathematics and telecommunication engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.[4] He then moved to the US and studied for a Master's degree in computer science at University of California, San Diego, and at University of California, Berkeley, where he received his PhD in 2013 under Nelson Morgan in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.[4][5]

Vinyals co-invented the seq2seq model for machine translation along with Ilya Sutskever and Quoc Viet Le.[6] He led AlphaStar research group at DeepMind, which applies artificial intelligence to computer games such as StarCraft II.[7]

In 2016, he was chosen by the magazine MIT Technology Review as one of the 35 most innovative young people under 35.[8][9]

By 2022 he was a principal research scientist at DeepMind.[10] His research in DeepMind is regularly featured in the mainstream media[11][12][13] As of August 2024, he is currently technical lead on Gemini, along with Noam Shazeer and Jeff Dean.[14]

See also

• Ilya Sutskever

References

1. Pascual, Manuel G. (2022-12-03). "Oriol Vinyals: "Nuestra generación verá una inteligencia artificial que iguale o supere a la del ser humano"". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-04-04.
2. "Oriol Vinyals – Google Research". Google Research. Retrieved 2022-08-01.
3. "9. Oriol Vinyals: Sequence-to-Sequence Machine Learning - The Future of Machine Intelligence [Book]". www.oreilly.com. Retrieved 2022-07-31.
4. Garro, Juan (17 March 2019). "Oriol Vinyals, el español detrás del último éxito de DeepMind: una IA capaz de arrollar a dos profesionales de Starcraft II". Xataka (in Spanish).
5. Vinyals, Oriol (December 12, 2013). "Tech Reports | EECS at UC Berkeley". eecs.berkeley.edu.
6. Sutskever, Ilya; Vinyals, Oriol; Le, Quoc V (2014). "Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 27. Curran Associates, Inc. arXiv:1409.3215.
7. Vinyals, Oriol; Babuschkin, Igor; Czarnecki, Wojciech M.; Mathieu, Michaël; Dudzik, Andrew; Chung, Junyoung; Choi, David H.; Powell, Richard; Ewalds, Timo; Georgiev, Petko; Oh, Junhyuk (2019-11-14). "Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning". Nature. 575 (7782): 350–354. Bibcode:2019Natur.575..350V. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1724-z. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 31666705. S2CID 204972004.
8. Pérez, Rocío (24 August 2016). "El ingeniero español elegido por el MIT entre los innovadores jóvenes del año". elconfidencial (in Spanish).
9. "Oriol Vinyals". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2022-07-31.
10. "DeepMind AI rivals average human competitive coder". BBC News. 2022-02-02. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
11. Vincent, James (2022-02-02). "DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer". The Verge. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
12. Staff, Ars (2016-11-25). "Google DeepMind could invent the next generation of AI by playing Starcraft 2". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
13. "Google brain connects his StarCraft past with AI future". Financial Times. 2017-11-23. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
14. Cai, Kenrick (August 22, 2024). "Google appoints former Character.AI founder as co-lead of its AI models". reuters.