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Anurag Ajay

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Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
📍 Mountain View, California, United States

Anurag Ajay is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, where he focuses on personalization and reasoning for Project Astra. He holds a PhD from MIT CSAIL, specializing in Offline Reinforcement Learning, Generative Modeling, and Foundation Models for decision-making. His work aims to enable AI agents to learn and perform complex tasks.

Originally from Bihar, India, Anurag is driven by a passion for creating new technologies that solve real-world problems. He enjoys learning and applying new mathematical and statistical techniques to his research, constantly pushing the boundaries of what intelligent agents can achieve in complex, interactive environments.

He is a key contributor to Google DeepMind’s Project Astra, a high-profile initiative to build the future of universal and helpful AI agents.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Research Scientist
Location
Mountain View, California, United States
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Human-AI Collaboration
His work on Project Astra and Gemini is centered on building the next generation of helpful multi-modal AI agents that can seamlessly collaborate with humans.
Foundation Models
A core theme of his PhD research at MIT and internships at Meta and Google, focusing on their application for decision-making and embodied AI.
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Work history

8-2024
Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
9-2017 - 8-2024
Graduate Student Researcher
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
6-2023 - 1-2024
Research Intern
Meta
6-2020 - 8-2020
Research Intern
Google
9-2014 - 4-2017
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
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Education
9-2019 - 8-2024
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9-2017 - 8-2019
Master of Science - MS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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