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Karén Simonyan

Builders & open source

At a glance. Karén Simonyan has no current role listed in the source profile. The profile sits among the builders and open-source contributors. Fields listed: Computer vision and Language models. The source lists 1 official page, 1 listed honor and open-role pages for Inflection AI.

Summary

First author of the VGG networks paper; joined Microsoft AI as Chief Scientist in 2024 from Inflection AI.

Known for: VGG networks (very deep convolutional networks).

Other documented roles

Not confirmed as current in the source profile.

  • Chief Scientist, Microsoft AI (announced March 2024), Microsoft AI
  • Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Inflection AI
  • Co-founder (with Max Jaderberg and Andrew Zisserman), Vision Factory

Open roles

Source and corrections

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