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 (59)
notebook10
machine-translation10
pytorch10
kaggle10
named-entity-recognition10
python10
data-science10
attention-mechanism10
mxnet10
machine-learning10
reinforcement-learning10
gaussian-processes10
keras10
hyperparameter-optimization10
deep-learning10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vanzytay/vanzytay.github.io
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:222 commits, 253 pushes in 3 years 5 months
vanzytay/CIKM_CUP
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 1 push in 1 year
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