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Çağlar Gülçehre

Tenure Track Assistant Professor, EPFL

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  • Tenure Track Assistant Professor, EPFL12

Çağlar Gülçehre is a tenure-track assistant professor at EPFL and principal investigator of the CLAIRE lab. Gülçehre's academic homepage also lists a research-consultant role at Google DeepMind and earlier work as a staff research scientist there. Gülçehre is a co-author of the 2014 paper that introduced the gated recurrent unit (GRU).123

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Current role
Tenure Track Assistant Professor
Company
EPFL
Work listed
1
Sources cited
3
Profile reviewed

Accomplishments

  • GRU1
  • CLAIRE lab at EPFL1

GRU

Gülçehre is a co-author of "Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder–Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation" (2014), the paper that introduced the GRU.12

EPFL and DeepMind

EPFL lists Gülçehre as a tenure-track assistant professor. The CLAIRE lab page describes work on efficient deep learning, alignment, and reasoning. Gülçehre's site says that at DeepMind he worked on reinforcement learning, foundation models, sequence-model architectures, and alignment.12

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References

3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 25, 2026 · data updated Oct 25, 2026

  1. Çağlar Gülçehre — academic homepageÇağlar Gülçehre · Official page · accessed Oct 25, 2026
  2. Çağlar Gülçehre — EPFL peopleEPFL · Official page · accessed Oct 25, 2026
  3. Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder–Decoder (arXiv 1406.1078)arXiv · Paper · accessed Oct 25, 2026