# Pushmeet Kohli

Pushmeet Kohli is one of the leading scientists in the field of Artificial Intelligence and was listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in AI. He holds the position of Vice President of research at Google DeepMind, the leading AI company in the world, where he heads the "Science and Strategic Initiatives Unit". He has led and supervised a number of impactful projects like the development of AlphaFold, a system for predicting the 3D structures of proteins, AlphaMissense - a model for predicting the effect of missense variants in the genome, SynthID - a system for robustly and imperceptibly watermarking and detecting AI generated content to prevent its use for misinformation.

## Education

Kohli was educated at National Institute of Technology, Warangal and Oxford Brookes University where his PhD awarded in 2007 was supervised by Philip Torr. He was a Postdoctoral fellow at University of Cambridge.

## Career

Before joining Google DeepMind, Pushmeet Kohli was partner scientist and director of research at Microsoft Research and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge. Kohli's research investigates applications of machine learning and computer vision. He has also made contributions in game theory, discrete algorithms and psychometrics.

## Notable Research Projects

* AlphaFold - breakthrough AI system for protein structure prediction
* AlphaTensor - a reinforcement learning agent that found new efficient algorithms for matrix multiplication
* SynthID - system for watermarking AI generated images.
* AlphaMissense - AI model for predicting the effect of missense mutations in the genome
* AlphaCode - Competition-level code generation with AI
* FunSearch - Discovering algorithms by using LLMs to search over program space.
* Neural Program Synthesis
* Probabilistic Programming
* 3D-scene Reconstruction and Understanding
* Community based Crowdsourcing of Data for Training AI Models
* Behavioral analysis and Personality prediction using on Online networks
* Human Pose Estimation using the Kinect
* Video Editing (Unwrap Mosaics)
Other AI for Science projects include
* Learnt Magnetic confinement control for Fusion
* Learnt Density Functional for solving the fractional electron problem

### Awards and honours

The impact of AlphaFold has seen its leads, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, being awarded by numerous prizes including 2024 Nobel prize in Chemistry, the Breakthrough prize, Lasker award, and Wolfe prize.
Pushmeet's research in computer vision and machine learning has been recognized by a number of scientific awards and prizes. Some notable ones include:
* Koenderink Prize (test of time award) by the European Conference of Computer Vision
* British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition (BMVA) Sullivan Prize for the best PhD thesis.
* IEEE Mixed Augmented Reality (ISMAR) Impact Paper award
* Lasting Impact Award by the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
* Best paper award at the International World Wide Web Conference 2014
* Best paper award in the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2010
* Best paper award in the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)