Biography:Pushmeet Kohli

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Pushmeet Kohli
Alma materTrinity Hall
University of Cambridge
National Institute of Technology, Warangal
Oxford Brookes University (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsMachine learning
Artificial intelligence
Computer vision[1]
InstitutionsGoogle
DeepMind
ThesisMinimizing dynamic and higher order energy functions using graph cuts (2007)
Doctoral advisorPhilip Torr[2]
Website{{{1}}}

Pushmeet Kohli is a computer scientist at Google DeepMind where he holds the position of Vice President of research for the "Secure and Reliable AI" and "AI for Science and Sustainability".[3] Before joining DeepMind, he was partner scientist and director of research at Microsoft Research and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge. Kohli's research investigates applications of machine learning and computer vision.[1][4] He has also made contributions in game theory, discrete algorithms and psychometrics.[5]

Education

Kohli was educated at National Institute of Technology, Warangal[citation needed] and Oxford Brookes University where his PhD awarded in 2007[6] was supervised by Philip Torr ({{{2}}}).[2] He was a Postdoctoral associate at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.[7]

Career and research

Current and previous research projects include:

  • AlphaFold - breakthrough AI system for protein structure prediction[8]
  • AlphaTensor - a reinforcement learning agent that found new efficient algorithms for matrix multiplication[9]
  • SynthID - system for watermarking AI generated images.[10]
  • AlphaMissense - AI model for predicting the effect of missense mutations in the genome [11][12]
  • AlphaCode - Competition-level code generation with AI[13]
  • FunSearch - Discovering algorithms by using LLMs to search over program space.[14]
  • Neural Program Synthesis[15]
  • Probabilistic Programming[16]
  • 3D-scene Reconstruction and Understanding
  • Community based Crowdsourcing of Data for Training AI Models[17]
  • Behavioral analysis and Personality prediction using on Online networks[18][19]
  • Human Pose Estimation using the Kinect[20]
  • Video Editing (Unwrap Mosaics)[21]

Other AI for Science projects include

  • Learnt Magnetic confinement control for Fusion [22]
  • Learnt Density Functional for solving the fractional electron problem [23]

Awards and honours

Kohli was listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in AI.[24]

The impact of AlphaFold has seen it result its leads, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, being awarded by numerous prizes including the prestigious Breakthrough prize, Lasker award, and Wolfe prize.

Pushmeet's research in computer vision and machine learning has been recognized by a number of scientific awards and prizes. Some notable ones include:

  • Koenderink Prize (test of time award) by the European Conference of Computer Vision[25]
  • British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition (BMVA) Sullivan Prize for the best PhD thesis.[26]
  • IEEE Mixed Augmented Reality (ISMAR) Impact Paper award[27]
  • Lasting Impact Award by the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology[28]
  • Best paper award at the International World Wide Web Conference 2014[29]
  • Best paper award in the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2010[30]
  • Best paper award in the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)[31]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pushmeet Kohli at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ "TIME100 AI 2023: Pushmeet Kohli" (in en). Time. 2023-09-07. https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6308942/pushmeet-kohli/. Retrieved 2023-11-11. 
  4. ↑ {{DBLP}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
  5. ↑ Parmy Olson (12 October 2011). "Microsoft Uses Facebook As Giant 'Lab' To Study Game Theory". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2011/10/12/microsoft-uses-facebook-as-giant-lab-to-study-game-theory/. 
  6. ↑ Kohli, Pushmeet (2007). Minimizing dynamic and higher order energy functions using graph cuts (PhD thesis). Oxford Brookes University. OCLC 1043101069. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.444300.
  7. ↑ IEEE. "Pushmeet Kohli - IEEE author profile". https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/38469164200. 
  8. ↑  , Wikidata Q107555821
  9. ↑ "TIME100 AI 2023: Pushmeet Kohli" (in en). Time. 2023-09-07. https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6308942/pushmeet-kohli/. Retrieved 2023-11-11. 
  10. ↑ "Google DeepMind has launched a watermarking tool for AI-generated images" (in en). https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/29/1078620/google-deepmind-has-launched-a-watermarking-tool-for-ai-generated-images/. 
  11. ↑ Cheng, Jun; Novati, Guido; Pan, Joshua; Bycroft, Clare; Žemgulytė, Akvilė; Applebaum, Taylor; Pritzel, Alexander; Wong, Lai Hong et al. (2023-09-22). "Accurate proteome-wide missense variant effect prediction with AlphaMissense" (in en). Science 381 (6664): eadg7492. doi:10.1126/science.adg7492. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 37733863. 
  12. ↑ "Google DeepMind AI speeds up search for disease genes" (in en-GB). BBC News. 2023-09-19. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66847977. 
  13. ↑ Li, Yujia; Choi, David; Chung, Junyoung; Kushman, Nate; Schrittwieser, Julian; Leblond, Rémi; Eccles, Tom; Keeling, James et al. (2022-12-09). "Competition-level code generation with AlphaCode" (in en). Science 378 (6624): 1092–1097. doi:10.1126/science.abq1158. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 36480631. Bibcode: 2022Sci...378.1092L. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq1158. 
  14. ↑ Romera-Paredes, Bernardino; Barekatain, Mohammadamin; Novikov, Alexander; Balog, Matej; Kumar, M. Pawan; Dupont, Emilien; Ruiz, Francisco J. R.; Ellenberg, Jordan S. et al. (2023-12-14). "Mathematical discoveries from program search with large language models" (in en). Nature: 1–3. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06924-6. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 10794145. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06924-6. 
  15. ↑ "Neural Program Synthesis" (in en-US). https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/neural-program-synthesis/. 
  16. ↑ "Picture: A Probabilistic Programming Language for Scene Perception". mrkulk.github.io. https://mrkulk.github.io/www_cvpr15/. 
  17. ↑ "MSDN Blogs". Microsoft. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/infernet_team_blog/archive/2014/06/25/community-based-bayesian-classifier-combination.aspx. 
  18. ↑ "Research Games - Microsoft Research". microsoft.com. Microsoft. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/researchgames/. 
  19. ↑ Kosinski, Michal; Stillwell, David; Kohli, Pushmeet; Bachrach, Yoram; Graepel, Thore (January 2012). "Personality and Website Choice" (in en-US). ACM Web Sciences. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/personality-and-website-choice/. 
  20. ↑ "Human Pose Estimation for Kinect". http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/vrkinect/. 
  21. ↑ "Unwrap Mosaics". microsoft.com. Microsoft. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/visionimagevideoediting/unwrap/. 
  22. ↑ Degrave, Jonas; Felici, Federico; Buchli, Jonas; Neunert, Michael; Tracey, Brendan; Carpanese, Francesco; Ewalds, Timo; Hafner, Roland et al. (February 2022). "Magnetic control of tokamak plasmas through deep reinforcement learning" (in en). Nature 602 (7897): 414–419. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04301-9. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 35173339. Bibcode: 2022Natur.602..414D. 
  23. ↑ Kirkpatrick, James; McMorrow, Brendan; Turban, David H. P.; Gaunt, Alexander L.; Spencer, James S.; Matthews, Alexander G. D. G.; Obika, Annette; Thiry, Louis et al. (2021-12-10). "Pushing the frontiers of density functionals by solving the fractional electron problem" (in en). Science 374 (6573): 1385–1389. doi:10.1126/science.abj6511. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 34882476. Bibcode: 2021Sci...374.1385K. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj6511. 
  24. ↑ "TIME100 AI 2023: Pushmeet Kohli" (in en). Time. 2023-09-07. https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6308942/pushmeet-kohli/. Retrieved 2023-11-11. 
  25. ↑ "Computer Vision Awards – The Computer Vision Foundation". https://www.thecvf.com/?page_id=413#Koenderink. 
  26. ↑ "The British Machine Vision Association : The Sullivan Doctoral Thesis Prize". https://www.bmva.org/bursaries/sullivan-prize.html. 
  27. ↑ "Awards – Ismar 2021". https://ismar2021.vgtc.org/program/awards/index.html. 
  28. ↑ "UIST 2021 - Home". https://uist.acm.org/uist2021/. 
  29. ↑ "안녕하세요!". www2014. http://www2014.wwwconference.org/%EC%95%88%EB%85%95%ED%95%98%EC%84%B8%EC%9A%94/. 
  30. ↑ "ECCV 2010, 11th European Conference on Computer Vision - awards". forth.gr. http://www.ics.forth.gr/eccv2010/awards.php. 
  31. ↑ "Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence" (in en). http://www.facebook.com/pages/Uncertainty-in-Artificial-Intelligence/104313386288699. 



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