Pushmeet Kohli is a Distinguished Scientist and Vice President of Research at Google DeepMind, where he founded and leads the AI for Science and Strategic Initiatives Unit. His team has leveraged AI to achieve breakthroughs in diverse fields such as biology, materials discovery, fusion, mathematics, software development, and cybersecurity. They have also developed important technologies like AlphaEvolve to accelerate AI research and SynthID to enable safe AI deployments.
Notable achievements from his programs include the Nobel Prize-winning model AlphaFold, which produces state-of-the-art protein structure predictions. This is one of the most cited AI biology papers ever, with over 35,000 citations and was the basis of the DeepMind spin-off Isomorphic labs. Pushmeet’s team has pioneered the use of large language model based AI agents, like AlphaEvolve and AI Co-Scientist, for scientific and AI research with projects leading to key new discoveries in mathematics and biology.
Prior to Google DeepMind, Pushmeet spent a decade at Microsoft Research, ultimately serving as Director of Research for the Cognition group. His doctoral thesis was honored with the Sullivan Doctoral Thesis Award from the British Machine Vision Association. In 2023, TIME magazine recognised his research and technical contributions to the development of Artificial Intelligence by naming him as one of the 100 most influential people in AI.