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Kelvin Guu

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Principal Research Scientist / Director at Google DeepMind
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Kelvin Guu is a Principal Research Scientist and Director at Google DeepMind with a PhD from Stanford. He led foundational research efforts in LLMs, coining the term "retrieval-augmented" with the REALM paper and co-inventing post-training with FLAN. His focus is on anticipating the fields next challenges and shipping research to product.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Principal Research Scientist / Director
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Topics Kelvin cares about

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
He is a pioneer in this field, having co-authored the REALM paper where he coined the term "retrieval-augmented."
LLM Factuality
As a research lead for Gemini, he built the model's first fact-checking agents, a cornerstone of its factuality and citation capabilities.
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Career

Work history

4-2025
Principal Research Scientist / Director
Google DeepMind
4-2023 - 4-2025
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Manager
Google DeepMind
10-2021 - 4-2023
Staff Research Scientist, Manager
Google
8-2020 - 10-2021
Senior Research Scientist, Manager
Google
10-2019 - 8-2020
Senior Research Scientist
Google
In the press

Media appearances

Talk: Personalizing AI Models – Kelvin Guu (Google DeepMind). Featured in YouTube
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UW NLP invited talk: Kelvin Guu (Google) – 4/28, 12:00 p.m.. Featured in ECE Advising Blog (University of Washington)
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Education
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Stanford University
Master of Science - MS
Stanford University
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