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
Announcement for the recipients of Google India AI/ML Awards 2020.
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.
Highlighting successes and challenges of some of the projects under AI for Social Good.
Projects covering seventeen countries across Asia-Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa, which will all receive funding, technical contributions from Google and access to computational resources.
Featured publications
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2022) (to appear)
Findings of ACL 2021 (to appear)
Proc. AISTATS'22 (2022) (to appear)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (2021)
ACM conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization 2021 (2021)
Some of our locations
Some of our people
Join our team
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.
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.
The Pre-Doctoral Researcher role is a 24-month role designed to give you direct experience working on challenging problems together with research scientists and engineers in Bangalore before continuing your Computer Science research education. As a Pre-Doctoral Researcher, you will collaborate with scientists and engineers at Google Research working on fundamental research and applied problems in a variety of areas in Computer Science.