Greg Wayne, Ph.D.

Greg is a Distinguished Scientist at Google DeepMind. He co-authored a 2016 Nature paper on neural networks with external memory and was recognized with the MIT 35 Under 35 Inventor award. His research has spanned neural architectures, humanoid motor control, long-term credit assignment in RL, navigation, and embodied language use in virtual robots. Since 2021, he has led Google's Project Astra, a multimodal dialogue research program to develop a universal AI assistant.