Vikas Raunak
Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
I am a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, working on Gemini. I received my MS in Language Technologies at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, advised by professor Florian Metze. Prior to that, I graduated from IIT Indore, India with a B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering and the President of India Gold Medal.
My research interests are mainly in Sequence Modeling, Evaluation and Reliability with a strong focus on large-scale natural language (text and speech) applications. Specifically, I am interested in:
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Building reliable computational models & evaluations which could capture rich sequence-level phenomena at different scales.
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Building controllable systems which could allow accessible customizations & interventions at different levels of abstraction.
The overarching mission of my research is to build scalable, efficient and reliable natural language models & applications which could be effectively used in rich multi-modal and multi-lingual real-world settings.
news
| Nov 2025 | Actively contributed to shipping Gemini 3.0 Pro – this is a true leap forward towards AGI! |
| Sep 2025 | Struct-Bench accepted at NeurIPS’25, check it out for differentially-private datagen evals |
| Jul 2025 | Memorization Inheritance accepted at ACL, first paper as a research manager! |
| Nov 2024 | Presented Instruction Finetuned NMT as a WMT Spotlight paper at EMNLP in Miami |
| Mar 2024 | SLIDE accepted at NAACL (main) – SLIDE allows ref-free Document-level MT evaluation |
| Oct 2023 | Papers on Dissecting In-Context Learning + Post-Editing accepted to EMNLP Findings |
| May 2023 | MT-GPT paper is out on arxiv, LLM Literalness paper accepted to ACL main conference |
| Dec 2022 | Presenting works on Model Editing and an evaluation opinion paper at NeurIPS workshops |
| Nov 2022 | Papers on Big-Bench, NL-Augmenter and BLOOM are on arxiv, Teams-Subtitles Shipped |
| Oct 2022 | Three papers accepted at EMNLP: Finding Memo, SALTED and GEM version 2 |
| Jul 2022 | Invited Talk at IST & Unbabel Seminar: Slides, Check out the Related Blog Post |
| Mar 2021 | Papers on Hallucinations and Searchable Hidden Intermediates accepted at NAACL |
| Aug 2020 | Papers Accepted at ACL Repl4NLP Workshop, CIKM, EMNLP Findings |
| Mar 2020 | Serving on ACL-SRW, ALVR, EMNLP, AACL 2020 Program Committees |
| Sep 2019 | Papers on Visually-Grounded NMT at INLG, Compositional NMT at a NeurIPS Workshop |
| Aug 2019 | Giving a talk at CMU LTI Student Research Symposium on word embedding properties |
| Jul 2019 | Received ACL-SRW Travel Grant, will be presenting papers at SRW & RepL4NLP |
| Jun 2019 | Presenting two papers (ASR, MT) at How2 ICML Workshop, No. 1 on How2-MT board |
| Mar 2019 | Work on Contextual Acoustic Word Embeddings accepted at ICASSP |
