Barrett Zoph Rejoins Google DeepMind for RL Role
Former Google Brain resident focuses on reinforcement learning and post-training at DeepMind.
Barrett Zoph announced his return to Google by joining DeepMind. Multiple researchers there, including Allen Nie, Adam Roberts, Thang Luong, and Thomas Kipf, welcomed him in replies to the post. Zoph began his AI career in the Google Brain Residency program. The posts state he will work on reinforcement learning and post-training initiatives. Other replies came from investor Shaun Maguire and researcher Jason Wei. No further details on specific projects or start date appear in the visible posts.
Excited to announce I am joining Google DeepMind! I started my AI career in the Google Brain Residency class and am excited to rejoin. I am going to be working on RL and Post-Training – excited to announce more soon. Google has all the ingredients to continue to be incredibly…