Anurag Arnab

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DISC Type : CI

Research Scientist at Google

Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Overview

Anurag Arnab is a Research Scientist at Google, specializing in computer vision, multimodal understanding, and generation. A graduate of the University of Oxford, his work focuses on video understanding and vision transformers, with technology he developed being integrated into products like Google Lens, YouTube, and Gemini.

Anurag has a strong interest in mentorship and education, having advised mentees into graduate school and industry careers. He previously developed and tutored a free online Python course for a non-profit, funded by grants from Google and Facebook, which reached thousands of students in South Africa.

During an internship, a neural network he developed for large-scale image retrieval was successfully put into production as part of Google Lens.

Personality Overview

Late Adopter

Informal Yet Blunt

Persuasive & Assertive

They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting information.  They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince.

Topics They Care About

Video Understanding
His primary research area at Google and during his PhD. He has authored influential papers and given numerous talks on large-scale video understanding with transformers.
Vision Transformers
He is a key contributor to research on transformer models for video, such as the "ViViT" paper, and has given invited lectures on the topic.
Multimodal AI
His current work at Google DeepMind focuses on multimodal understanding and generation, with his algorithms contributing to the Gemini model.

Media Appearances

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Work History

9-2019
Research Scientist at Google
9-2015 - 7-2019
PhD Student at University of Oxford
6-2018 - 10-2018
Research Scientist Intern at DeepMind
6-2017 - 9-2017
Software Engineer Intern (Research) at Google
2-2013 - 3-2016
Developer at Hyperion Development South Africa

Education

2015 - 2019
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from University of Oxford
2011 - 2014
B.Sc (Engineering) from University of Cape Town

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