At India Research Lab, our mission is to contribute towards fundamental advances in computer science and apply our research to tackle big problems and deliver impact for India, Google, and the communities around the world.
About the team
Our impact and goals for the next 5 years are aligned along three dimensions:
Scientific Impact
Advance the state of the art for every problem that we pursue.
- Build models of human cognition and cognition-inspired AI algorithms.
- Understand limitations of deep learning systems, improve their safety and robustness and address issues including calibration, fairness and explainability of ML solutions.
- Combine computer vision based methods with personalised knowledge graphs to better understand images.
- Pursue basic research in HCI, to ensure that our technologies touching end users are informed by an evolved understanding of human factors.
Societal Impact
Demonstrate positive societal impact through our research in areas such as health, ecology and wildlife conservation.
- Transform healthcare using ML: Our researchers have developed deep learning based solutions for more effective screening of diabetic retinopathy, which are being deployed at hospitals in India.
- AI for Social Good program to address issues like public health, education and wildlife conservation, in partnership with NGOs and academic researchers, while making fundamental advances to the underlying scientific areas like multi-agent systems, ML and HCI.
- Develop additional novel solutions focussed on the prevention and wellness for major diseases like CVD and diabetes; improve health outcomes at lower costs and solve for the acute shortage of doctors in countries like India.
Product Impact
Make significant improvements to Google products to make them more helpful to our users.
- Advance the state of the art and apply ML in areas like natural language understanding (NLU) and user understanding to address the unique challenges in the Indian context (e.g. code mixing in Search, diversity of languages, dialects and accents in Assistant) .
- Enhance overall capabilities (e.g. ability of the Assistant to handle conversations requiring a combination of knowledge, reasoning and personalization), do better user modeling and to improve fraud detection in GPay.
Research areas
Team focus summaries
Highlighted projects
Announcing Google India AI/ML Research Awardees 2020
Announcing Google India AI/ML Research Awardees 2020
Announcement for the recipients of Google India AI/ML Awards 2020.
Google Research India: an AI lab in Bangalore
Google Research India: an AI lab in Bangalore
Announcing the launch of Google Research India - an AI Lab focused on advancing fundamental computer science and AI research, and applying it to tackle big problems in the field of healthcare, agriculture and education.
Progress from a year of AI for Social Good at Google Research India
Progress from a year of AI for Social Good at Google Research India
Highlights of successes and challenges on some of the projects under AI for Social Good.
How we’re supporting 30 new AI for Social Good projects
How we’re supporting 30 new AI for Social Good projects
Projects covering seventeen countries across Asia-Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa, who will all receive funding, technical contributions from Google and access to computational resources.
Featured publications
Towards an AI-Powered Future that Works for Vocational Workers
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2020)
MergeDistill: Merging Pre-trained Language Models using Distillation
Findings of ACL 2021 (to appear)
Tracking what matters: a decision-variable account of human behavior in bandit tasks
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021) (2021) (to appear)
Training Data Augmentation for Code-Mixed Translation
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Association for Computational Linguistics, Online, pp. 5760-5766
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Research Scientist, Google Research
Research Scientist, Google Research
As a Research Scientist, you'll actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.The research lab in Bangalore is a part of Google’s global network of researchers: participating in conferences, publishing research in scientific papers, and collaborating closely with one another.
Visiting Researcher
Visiting Researcher
The Visiting Researcher Program is available to both postdoctoral and university faculty candidates/applicants. Positions are flexible as part-time or full-time arrangements to accommodate a variety of schedules and commitments. Visiting Researchers typically collaborate with research and engineering teams at Google for 3 - 12 months.
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