Dumitru Erhan
I’m Dumitru Erhan, I live in San Francisco, California and I work at Google. Some things I enjoy are cycling, cooking, kitchen gadgets, cats, and of course neural nets.
Currently
At Google DeepMind, I am a co-lead of Gemini Omni. I was also a lead of Veo and Phenaki. While in the Google Brain team, I worked on models that understand the world around them, roughly centered around video generation and prediction and using that for model-based reinforcement learning. I used to work on fast single-shot detection, image captioning, visual question-answering, as well as structured outputs for image understanding. Formerly, I was part of Google Photos, and built neural network models that understand all the images and photos on the web. Here’s an overview from 2013 and 2015.
Previously
- I did my PhD at University of Montreal, on deep learning with Yoshua Bengio.
- In 2011–2012, I was at Yahoo Labs, where I improved Federated Search, the ranking of search results (web, news, movies, shopping etc.) on the Yahoo Search results page.
Publications
My up-to-date list of publications can be found on my Google Scholar or ResearchGate, which do a better job than me at indexing them.
Stuff
- Download my (very outdated) résuméPDF
- Email: mail [at] dumitru.ca