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#52ResearcherFoundation Models & LLMs

Douwe Kiela

Google DeepMind / Contextual AI (founder)

Specialties

NLPLLMs

Location

Netherlands/USA

Education

PhD in NLP, University of Cambridge (2017).

Biography

Founded Contextual AI and co-authored the original RAG paper. Joined Google DeepMind in May 2026 with 20+ researchers via an acquihire and technology licence.

Key Influence

Advancing multimodal AI and evaluation benchmarks for foundation models.