Shixiang Shane Gu
Senior Staff Research Scientist (Gemini Thinking team) · Google DeepMind
At a glance. Shixiang Shane Gu is listed as Senior Staff Research Scientist (Gemini Thinking team) at Google DeepMind. The profile sits among the builders and open-source contributors. Fields listed: Language models and Reinforcement learning. The source lists 1 official page, 2 listed honors and open-role pages for OpenAI.
Summary
Senior staff research scientist at Google DeepMind on Gemini; co-author of Gumbel-Softmax and zero-shot CoT.
Known for: Gumbel-Softmax; Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners.
Works at
- Google DeepMind 64 people in the wiki
Other documented roles
Not confirmed as current in the source profile.
- Senior researcher on the ChatGPT team, OpenAI
- Founding member of the Google Brain Robotics team, Google Brain
Open roles
Related people
- Oriol VinyalsAlso at Google DeepMind
- Koray KavukcuogluAlso at Google DeepMind
- Sahil DuaAlso at Google DeepMind
- Jan LeikeAlso at Google DeepMind
- Shimon WhitesonAlso at Google DeepMind
- Jakub PachockiLanguage models · Reinforcement learning
- Eric MitchellLanguage models · Reinforcement learning
- Aravind SrinivasLanguage models · Reinforcement learning
- Shengjia ZhaoLanguage models · Reinforcement learning
- Lilian WengLanguage models · Reinforcement learning
Source and corrections
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