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
Google for India 2022: Driving impact with AI across Indian languages, the agricultural ecosystem, and digitizing your doctor's penmanship
Google for India 2022: Driving impact with AI across Indian languages, the agricultural ecosystem, and digitizing your doctor's penmanship
Google Research’s journey in India in the last three years, along with our partners, has been exciting and rewarding, from finding solutions for Indian language speakers to enabling better maternal healthcare solutions and helping to efficiently diagnose preventable diabetic blindness. Solving Indian challenges means solving for areas as diverse as our country of over a billion people. We share how AI and ML deliver meaningful and scaled solutions in Language, Agriculture, and Health.
A Glance at Past Three Years of Google Research in India
A Glance at Past Three Years of Google Research in India
Google Research India was founded with two key principles: (1) to advance fundamental computer science and AI research by building a strong team while partnering with India’s research community and (2) to apply that research to some of the country’s biggest healthcare, agriculture and education problems while continuing to develop services that benefit people everywhere. The journey has been deeply fulfilling, from working with local NGOs as they use AI approaches, scaling the impact of their efforts, to developing and sharing multilingual language models that better understand Indian languages than ever before.
Using ML to Boost Engagement with a Maternal and Child Health Program in India
Using ML to Boost Engagement with a Maternal and Child Health Program in India
In a recent 23,000-participant study, we demonstrate how #MachineLearning can achieve ~30% improved engagement with an automated voice messaging program for maternal and child health in India, operated by our partners @armmanindia.
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.
Featured publications
Bootstrapping Multilingual Semantic Parsers using Large Language Models
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) (2023)
Cross Modal Distillation for Flood Extent Mapping
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, NeurIPS 2022 Workshop
Multimodal contrastive learning for remote sensing tasks
Self-Supervised Learning - Theory and Practice, NeurIPS 2022 Workshop
Annotator Diversity in Data Practices
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA (to appear)
Adapting Multilingual Models for Code-Mixed Translation
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, Association for Computational Linguistics (2022), 7133–7141
Designing Responsible AI: Adaptations of UX Practice to Meet Responsible AI Challenges
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI) 2023, ACM (2023) (to appear)
A Contextual Bandit Approach for Learning to Plan in Environments with Probabilistic Goal Configurations
NeurIPS 5th Robot Learning Workshop: Trustworthy Robotics (2022) (to appear)
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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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