Romal Thoppilan

Co-Founder

United States11 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Pioneered foundational AI projects at Google and Character AI.
  • Expertise in developing conversational AI models.
  • Strong background in AI infrastructure and optimization.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leading expert in AI development and infrastructure, particularly in conversational models.

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About

Building general intelligence at Google Deepmind! Previously, Founding member of Character AI Founding member of Google’s first LLM LaMDA Motivation → Insight → Access → Resources → Skill → Serendipity → Impact → Repeat → ...

Experience

11 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 9 mos
Current Experience

Google deepmind

Research Scientist

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

Character.ai

Founding Research Engineer

Feb 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

  • Building AGI that is fun to talk to

Google

Software Engineer

Nov 2014 – Feb 2022 · 7 yrs 3 mos · Mountain View

  • My work on Meena and LaMDA:
  • LaMDA: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08239
  • Meena: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09977
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  • Google Education: solve AI based tutoring with large language models.
  • YouTube Video classification: build reliable model training and serving infrastructure to actively classify videos with brand safety labels at youtube scale.
  • YouTube Ads Planning & Optimization: build systems to forecast performance metrics like user reach & impressions for any ad campaign settings.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

BE Honours — Computer Science;

Jan 2010 – Jan 2014

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