Kalpesh Krishna

AI Researcher

Mountain View, California, United States10 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in large language models and generative AI.
Strong background in research and development at Google DeepMind.
Proven track record in instruction following and steerability.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leading expert in AI research and development, particularly in large language models.

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About

Please check my personal webpage or Google Scholar profile for more information about my research. GScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=9g2BsMUAAAAJ Webpage: https://martiansideofthemoon.github.io

Experience

10 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

2 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 7 mos

Current Experience

Google deepmind

2 roles

Staff Research Scientist

Promoted

Oct 2025 – Present · 8 mos · On-site

Working in the GenAI team on the Gemini large language models. Part of the LLM post-training (SFT/RL/RLHF) team, with a focus on instruction following and steerability. Focus on Gemini products in AI Studio, Vertex AI, Google Search, and the Gemini App (gemini.google.com).

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Senior Research Scientist

Nov 2024 – Oct 2025 · 11 mos · On-site

Working in the GenAI team on the Gemini large language models. Part of the LLM post-training (SFT/RL/RLHF) team, with a focus on instruction following and steerability. Focus on Gemini products in AI Studio, Vertex AI, Google Search, and the Gemini App (gemini.google.com).

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Google

Research Scientist

Sep 2023 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · New York, New York, United States · On-site

Working on the Gemini large language models. Part of the LLM post-training (SFT/RL/RLHF) and evaluation team, with a focus on instruction following. Focus on products like gemini.google.com, and the Gemini 1.5 Pro API in Vertex AI.

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Allen institute for ai (ai2)

Research Intern

Jun 2022 – Aug 2022 · 2 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Google

4 roles

Student Researcher

Oct 2021 – May 2022 · 7 mos

Working with John Wieting on problems in text generation.

Research Intern

Jun 2021 – Sep 2021 · 3 mos

I am working with Partha Talukdar on problems in multilingual text generation.

Research Intern

May 2020 – Nov 2020 · 6 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

I am working in the Google Brain team (with Aurko Roy) on problems in text generation. Part-time (20%) from September 2020.

Research Intern

May 2019 – Dec 2019 · 7 mos · Greater New York City Area

Worked in the Google AI Language Team on model extraction attacks on modern Natural Language Understanding models based on BERT. I worked with Gaurav Singh Tomar and Ankur Parikh, and collaborated with Nicolas Papernot. I continued my role as a part-time (20%) from September 2019.

College of information and computer sciences, umass amherst

Graduate Research Assistant

Sep 2018 – Aug 2023 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Amherst, USA

Grad student at Prof. Mohit Iyyer's lab, where I did research on large language models and other generative models for text.

Toyota technological institute at chicago (ttic)

Visiting Research Scholar

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

I worked on modern Automatic Speech Recognition, with the SLATTIC group. I was advised by professors Karen Livescu, Kevin Gimpel and Liang Lu. In Summer 2018, I continued a remote collaboration with Shubham Toshniwal and Prof. Karen Livescu.

Indian institute of technology, bombay

4 roles

Institute Student Mentor

Apr 2017 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr · Mumbai Area, India

I was a part of the Institute Student Mentorship Program (ISMP) and the Electrical Engineering Department Academic Mentorship Program (DAMP).

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Dec 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

I'm worked with Prof. Preethi Jyothi on neural language modelling and constraint-driven learning for Natural Language Processing applications.

Teaching Assistant

Jul 2016 – Feb 2017 · 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

I helped teach two courses, CS101 (Computer Programming and Utilization) and MA106 (Linear Algebra).

Manager, Web and Coding Club

Apr 2016 – Mar 2017 · 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Mozilla

Google Summer of Code, Quarter of Contribution

Nov 2015 – Aug 2016 · 9 mos

I worked with the TaskCluster team and the Engineering Productivity team, mentored by Armen Zambrano. I also did a Quarter of Contribution project with James Graham.