Oriol Vinyals, born in 1983 in Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain, is a prominent machine learning researcher specializing in deep learning and artificial intelligence. He completed his undergraduate studies in mathematics and telecommunication engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Vinyals then pursued a master's degree at the University of California, San Diego, followed by a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
During his tenure at Google Brain, Vinyals co-developed the sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model, a groundbreaking approach in machine translation, alongside Ilya Sutskever and Quoc Viet Le. This model has significantly influenced natural language processing applications.
At DeepMind, Vinyals led the AlphaStar project, which achieved grandmaster level in the real-time strategy game StarCraft II, showcasing advanced multi-agent reinforcement learning techniques.
In recognition of his contributions to technology and innovation, Vinyals was honored as one of MIT Technology Review's "35 Innovators Under 35" in 2016.
As of August 2024, he serves as the technical lead on Google's Gemini project, collaborating with Noam Shazeer and Jeff Dean.
Vinyals's research has been widely recognized and his scholarly work has garnered over 332,000 citations, reflecting his substantial impact on the field of artificial intelligence.
