Yi Tay is a Singapore-based AI researcher at Google DeepMind, where he works on Gemini post-training and advanced reasoning. He previously co-founded Reka AI and served as its Chief Scientist, following research roles at Google Brain.
Yi Tay is a Singapore-based AI researcher at Google DeepMind, where he works on Gemini post-training and advanced reasoning. He previously co-founded Reka AI and served as its Chief Scientist, following research roles at Google Brain.
Career
Yi Tay studied at Nanyang Technological University (PhD in Computer Science and Bachelor’s degree).
Senior Research Scientist at Google from 2020 to 2023Worked on transformer scaling, architectures, and large language model research. Co-led modeling and architecture work for PaLM 2 and contributed to UL2, Flan-2, PaLM, and related efforts.