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Dzmitry Bahdanau

AI research scientist, Periodic Labs

Dzmitry Bahdanau is an AI research scientist at Periodic Labs and an adjunct professor at McGill / core industry member at Mila. He co-authored the 2014 neural machine translation paper that introduced attention, a foundation for later sequence models. He previously led conversational AI research at ServiceNow Research.123

At a glance

Current roles
AI research scientist +2 more
Work listed
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Sources cited
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Accomplishments

  • Co-invented neural attention for machine translation (2014).2
  • AI research scientist at Periodic Labs; Mila / McGill.1

Attention and research career

With Kyunghyun Cho and Yoshua Bengio, Bahdanau co-authored Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (2014), introducing attention over encoder states. He completed his PhD at Mila / Université de Montréal under Bengio.12

Periodic Labs and ServiceNow

His LinkedIn and Mila directory list him as an AI research scientist at Periodic Labs (from 2025) after serving as research lead at ServiceNow Research (2021–2025).31

Work and contributions

Timeline

  1. Attention NMT paper.2
  2. Joined Periodic Labs.3

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References

3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 23, 2026 · data updated Oct 23, 2026

  1. Dzmitry Bahdanau | MilaMila · Official page · accessed Oct 23, 2026
  2. Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and TranslatearXiv · Official page · published Sep 2014 · accessed Oct 23, 2026
  3. Dzmitry BahdanauLinkedIn · Official page · accessed Oct 23, 2026