Henrique Schechter Vera

Research

Schechter Vera's recent papers concern text embedding models. Schechter Vera co-authored the Gemini Embedding paper in March 2025 and was first author of the EmbeddingGemma paper in September 2025, which introduced a lightweight open embedding model built on Gemma.³²¹

In October 2026 Schechter Vera and Sahil Dua, both research engineers at Google DeepMind, wrote the Google blog post introducing EmbeddingGemma 2.¹

Work and contributions

• EmbeddingGemma 300M Open weights

  First author of the EmbeddingGemma paper (2025), which presents the lightweight open text embedding model.²

• EmbeddingGemma 2 Open weights

  Co-author, with Sahil Dua, of Google's October 2026 launch post for EmbeddingGemma 2.¹

Timeline

1. Mar 2025Co-authored "Gemini Embedding, Generalizable Embeddings from Gemini".³
2. Sep 2025Posted the EmbeddingGemma paper as first author.²
3. Oct 6, 2026Co-wrote the launch post for EmbeddingGemma 2 with Sahil Dua.¹

Where they work

• Google DeepMind 64 people in the wiki

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