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Australia

Google Research Australia aims to advance the state-of-the-art in machine learning, in areas such as Fundamental Machine Learning, Natural Language Understanding, and Systems Programming. We aim to apply our research in ways that benefit Australia, Google and global society.

Our mission at Google Research Australia is to contribute to fundamental advances in machine learning and computing, and apply those advances to drive significant benefits to our users.

We aim to leverage our research in Machine Learning, Natural Language Understanding, Responsible AI and Systems Programming to create advances that can make Google products more powerful and efficient, as well as more inclusive and equitable. Impact in areas such as Climate Sciences and Health will benefit Australians and global citizens alike.

Our researchers extensively collaborate with researchers across the global Google Research organization and the broader academic community. We believe that sharing knowledge through scientific publications and partnering with the academic community will enhance the impact of our work.

Research areas

Natural Language Processing

Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization

Machine Intelligence

Software Systems

Quantum Computing

Health & Bioscience

Security, Privacy and Abuse Prevention

Some of our teams

Language

Responsible AI

System Performance

Security, Privacy and Abuse

Some of our work

Building Google’s World-class Australian Research Hub

An exciting part of the Digital Future Initiative is Google’s first research hub in Australia. Based in Sydney, we will work to advance AI and machine learning to tackle important challenges for Australians and people around the world. Today, we are excited to share some important progress we’ve made on Google Research Australia: Professor Peter Bartlett and Grace Chung have been appointed to lead Google Research Australia.

Our Commitment to Australia’s Digital Future

Speaking virtually at an event in Sydney, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the Digital Future Initiative: a $1 billion, five-year commitment to Australia, including initiatives to strengthen digital infrastructure, develop Australian technology and talent, and solve global and local challenges.

Partnering with CSIRO to Protect our Reef, with Help From AI

Google teamed up with CSIRO and the Kaggle data science community to develop a machine learning solution used to analyze underwater images of a predatory species called the crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS), a significant threat to coral. This new technology is now being tested by researchers in the southern Great Barrier Reef.

LaMDA: Towards Safe, Grounded, and High-Quality Dialog Models for Everything

Sharing recent advances in our “LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications” project. In this post, we provide an overview on how we’re making progress towards safe, grounded and high-quality dialog applications. LaMDA is built by fine-tuning a family of Transformer-based neural language models specialized for dialog, with up to 137B model parameters, and teaching the models to leverage external knowledge sources.

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Research Scientist

Whether developing experiments, prototyping implementations, or designing new architectures, Research Scientists work on real-world problems in computer science. Our Research Scientists work across data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilation techniques for mobile platforms, core search, and much more.

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Research Engineer

Our research-focused software engineers are embedded throughout the company, allowing them to setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly. From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, research engineers work on machine learning, data mining, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms and much more.

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Internships & Student Researchers

Our technical interns are key to innovation at Google and make significant contributions through applied projects and research publications. Internships take place throughout the year, and we encourage students from a range of disciplines, including CS, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics to apply to work with us.

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We believe open collaboration is essential for progress

We’re proud to work with academic and research institutions to push the boundaries of AI and computer science. Learn more about our student and faculty programs, as well as our global outreach initiatives.

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