Thang Luong

Thang Luong

Thang Luong is currently a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, ex Google Brain. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2016, during which he pioneered the field of deep learning for machine translation. At Google DeepMind, Dr. Luong built state-of-the-art models in both language (QANet, ELECTRA) and vision (UDA, NoisyStudent). He is a co-founder the Meena project, which debuted the world’s best chatbot in 2020 (later became Google LaMDA, Bard) and an inventor of LuongAttention. Dr. Luong has been co-leading the development of Bard Multimodality since 2022 and is the principal investigator of the AlphaGeometry project (Nature, 2024) that solves Olympiad geometry problems at the IMO level.

Academically, Dr. Luong has served as area chairs at ACL & NeuRIPS conferences. He has published over 50 articles at top-tiered conferences, with over 30000 citations and 15 patents. All of his publications can be found at Google Scholar. Sample works:self-training & Google search, conversation, semi-supervised learning, language pretraining, and neural machine translation.

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    Google DeepMind
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    Senior Staff Research Scientist
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18 March 2024
17:00 - 18:30 CET Geneva | 09:00-10:30 PDT, San Francisco | 12:00-13:30 EDT, New York
Gitta Kutyniok (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München), Thang Luong (Google DeepMind)

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