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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
At a glance
- Current role
- Tenure Track Assistant Professor
- Company
- EPFL
- Work listed
- 1
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
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
Work and contributions
Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder–Decoder (GRU) Published research
Co-author of the 2014 paper that introduced the gated recurrent unit.12
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.
- Staff Research Scientist (former), Google DeepMind12
Where they work
- EPFL 2 people in the wiki
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- Leandro von WerraLanguage models · Reinforcement learning
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3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 25, 2026 · data updated Oct 25, 2026