Biography:Oriol Vinyals

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Short description: Spanish machine learning researcher
Oriol Vinyals
Born1983 (age 40–41)
Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain
EducationUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Berkeley
Known forseq2seq
AlphaStar
Scientific career
InstitutionsGoogle
DeepMind
ThesisBeyond Deep Learning: Scalable Methods and Models for Learning (2013)
Doctoral advisorNelson Morgan

Oriol Vinyals (born 1983) is a Spanish machine learning researcher at DeepMind,[1][2] where he is the principal research scientist.[3] His research in DeepMind is regularly featured in the mainstream media[4][5][6] especially after being acquired by Google.[7]

Education and career

Vinyals was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain .[8] He studied mathematics and telecommunication engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He then moved to the US and studied for a Master's degree in computer science at University of California, San Diego, and at University of California, Berkeley, where he received his PhD in 2013 under Nelson Morgan in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Vinyals co-invented the seq2seq model for machine translation along with Ilya Sutskever and Quoc Viet Le.[9] He led AlphaStar research group at DeepMind, which applies artificial intelligence to computer games such as StarCraft II.[10]

In 2016, he was chosen by the magazine MIT Technology Review as one of the 35 most innovative young people under 35.[11]

See also

References

  1. Pascual, Manuel G. (2022-12-03). "Oriol Vinyals: "Nuestra generación verá una inteligencia artificial que iguale o supere a la del ser humano"" (in es). https://elpais.com/tecnologia/2022-12-03/oriol-vinyals-nuestra-generacion-vera-una-inteligencia-artificial-que-iguale-o-supere-a-la-del-ser-humano.html. 
  2. "Oriol Vinyals – Google Research" (in en). https://research.google/people/OriolVinyals/. 
  3. "DeepMind AI rivals average human competitive coder" (in en-GB). BBC News. 2022-02-02. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60231058. 
  4. Vincent, James (2022-02-02). "DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer" (in en-US). https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/2/22914085/alphacode-ai-coding-program-automatic-deepmind-codeforce. 
  5. Staff, Ars (2016-11-25). "Google DeepMind could invent the next generation of AI by playing Starcraft 2" (in en-us). https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/11/starcraft-2-google-deepmind-ai/. 
  6. "Google brain connects his StarCraft past with AI future". Financial Times. 2017-11-23. https://www.ft.com/content/6a48eb5e-627b-11e7-8814-0ac7eb84e5f1. 
  7. "Oriol Vinyals – Google Research" (in en). https://research.google/people/OriolVinyals/. 
  8. "9. Oriol Vinyals: Sequence-to-Sequence Machine Learning - The Future of Machine Intelligence [Book"] (in en). https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-future-of/9781492042334/ch09.html. 
  9. Sutskever, Ilya; Vinyals, Oriol; Le, Quoc V (2014). "Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (Curran Associates, Inc.) 27. https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2014/hash/a14ac55a4f27472c5d894ec1c3c743d2-Abstract.html. 
  10. Vinyals, Oriol; Babuschkin, Igor; Czarnecki, Wojciech M.; Mathieu, Michaël; Dudzik, Andrew; Chung, Junyoung; Choi, David H.; Powell, Richard et al. (2019-11-14). "Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning" (in en). Nature 575 (7782): 350–354. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1724-z. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 31666705. Bibcode2019Natur.575..350V. http://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1724-z. 
  11. "Oriol Vinyals" (in en). https://www.technologyreview.com/innovator/oriol-vinyals/.