Full Name
Raia Hadsell
Job Title
VP of Research
Company
Google DeepMind
Brief Biography
Raia Hadsell is VP of Research at Google DeepMind. She joined DeepMind in 2014 to pursue new solutions for artificial general intelligence. She currently co-leads Google Deepmind's Frontier AI unit, leading teams to drive groundbreaking research to push the limits of AI. The focus is on transforming pioneering ideas into the next generation of products and future technologies.
Before joining DeepMind in early 2014, Raia found her way into AI research via an unusual path. After an undergraduate degree in religion and philosophy from Reed College, she veered off-course and became a computer scientist. Her PhD with Yann LeCun, at NYU, focused on machine learning using Siamese neural nets (often called a 'triplet loss' today), face recognition algorithms, and on deep learning for mobile robots in the wild. Her thesis, 'Learning Long-range vision for offroad robots', was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation award in 2009. Raia spent her post-doc at CMU Robotics Institute, working with Drew Bagnell and Martial Hebert, and then became a research scientist at SRI International, at the Vision and Robotics group in Princeton, NJ.
In the broader AI community, she serves as an AI Ambassador for the UK government. She was also a founder and Editor-in-Chief of a new open journal, TMLR. She sits on the executive boards of CoRL and WiML (Women in Machine Learning), is a fellow of the European Lab on Learning Systems (ELLIS), and was a founding organizer of NAISys (Neuroscience for AI Systems).
Before joining DeepMind in early 2014, Raia found her way into AI research via an unusual path. After an undergraduate degree in religion and philosophy from Reed College, she veered off-course and became a computer scientist. Her PhD with Yann LeCun, at NYU, focused on machine learning using Siamese neural nets (often called a 'triplet loss' today), face recognition algorithms, and on deep learning for mobile robots in the wild. Her thesis, 'Learning Long-range vision for offroad robots', was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation award in 2009. Raia spent her post-doc at CMU Robotics Institute, working with Drew Bagnell and Martial Hebert, and then became a research scientist at SRI International, at the Vision and Robotics group in Princeton, NJ.
In the broader AI community, she serves as an AI Ambassador for the UK government. She was also a founder and Editor-in-Chief of a new open journal, TMLR. She sits on the executive boards of CoRL and WiML (Women in Machine Learning), is a fellow of the European Lab on Learning Systems (ELLIS), and was a founding organizer of NAISys (Neuroscience for AI Systems).
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