Pushmeet Kohli
Pushmeet Kohli is a principal scientist and research team leader at DeepMind. Before joining DeepMind, Pushmeet was the director of research at the Cognition group at Microsoft. During his 10 years at Microsoft, Pushmeet worked in Microsoft labs in Seattle, Cambridge and Bangalore and took a number of roles and duties including being technical advisor to Rick Rashid, the Chief Research Officer of Microsoft.
Pushmeet’s research revolves around Intelligent Systems and Computational Sciences, and he publishes in the fields of Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Information Retrieval, and Game Theory. His current research interests include 3D Reconstruction and Rendering, Probabilistic Programming, Interpretable and Verifiable Knowledge Representations from Deep Models. He is also interested in Conversation agents for Task completion, Machine learning systems for Healthcare and 3D rendering and interaction for augmented and virtual reality.
Pushmeet has won a number of awards and prizes for his research. His PhD thesis, titled "Minimizing Dynamic and Higher Order Energy Functions using Graph Cuts", was the winner of the British Machine Vision Association’s “Sullivan Doctoral Thesis Award”, and was a runner-up for the British Computer Society's “Distinguished Dissertation Award”. Pushmeet’s papers have appeared in Computer Vision (ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, PAMI, IJCV, CVIU, BMVC, DAGM), Machine Learning, Robotics and AI (NIPS, ICML, AISTATS, AAAI, AAMAS, UAI, ISMAR), Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH, Eurographics), and HCI (CHI, UIST) conferences. They have won awards in ICVGIP 2006, 2010, ECCV 2010, ISMAR 2011, TVX 2014, CHI 2014, WWW 2014 and CVPR 2015. His research has also been the subject of a number of articles in popular media outlets such as Forbes, Wired, BBC, New Scientist and MIT Technology Review. Pushmeet is a part of the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Distinguished Speaker Program.
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Generative models improve fairness of medical classifiers under distribution shifts
Ira Ktena
Olivia Wiles
Isabela Albuquerque
Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi
Ryutaro Tanno
Danielle Belgrave
Taylan Cemgil
Nature Medicine (2024)
Enhancing diagnostic accuracy of medical AI systems via selective deferral to clinicians
Dj Dvijotham
Jim Winkens
Melih Barsbey
Sumedh Ghaisas
Robert Stanforth
Nick Pawlowski
Patricia Strachan
Zahra Ahmed
Yoram Bachrach
Laura Culp
Mayank Daswani
Jan Freyberg
Christopher Kelly
Atilla Kiraly
Timo Kohlberger
Scott Mayer McKinney
Basil Mustafa
Krzysztof Geras
Jan Witowski
Zhi Zhen Qin
Jacob Creswell
Shravya Shetty
Terry Spitz
Taylan Cemgil
Nature Medicine (2023)
Consensus, dissensus and synergy between clinicians and specialist foundation models in radiology report generation
Ryutaro Tanno
David Barrett
Sumedh Ghaisas
Sumanth Dathathri
Abi See
Johannes Welbl
Karan Singhal
Rhys May
Roy Lee
SiWai Man
Zahra Ahmed
Sara Mahdavi
Joelle Barral
Ali Eslami
Danielle Belgrave
Shravya Shetty
Po-Sen Huang
Ira Ktena
Arxiv (2023)
Reinforced Genetic Algorithm Learning for Optimizing Computation Graphs
Aditya Paliwal
Felix Gimeno
Vinod Gopal Nair
Yujia Li
Miles Lubin
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) (2020)
Learning Transferable Graph Exploration
Hanjun Dai
Yujia Li
Chenglong Wang
Rishabh Singh
Po-Sen Huang
Neural Processing Information Systems (NeurIPS) (2019)
Relational inductive biases, deep learning, and graph networks
Peter Battaglia
Jessica Blake Chandler Hamrick
Victor Bapst
Alvaro Sanchez
Vinicius Zambaldi
Mateusz Malinowski
Andrea Tacchetti
David Raposo
Adam Santoro
Ryan Faulkner
Caglar Gulcehre
Francis Song
Andy Ballard
Justin Gilmer
Ashish Vaswani
Kelsey Allen
Charles Nash
Victoria Jayne Langston
Chris Dyer
Nicolas Heess
Daan Wierstra
Matt Botvinick
Yujia Li
Razvan Pascanu
arXiv (2018)
