Karen Simonyan
Chief Scientist, Microsoft AI
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Microsoft AI
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Chief Scientist, Microsoft AI
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Co-creator of VGGNet with Andrew Zisserman (2014), one of the most influential convolutional neural network architectures. Now Chief Scientist at Microsoft AI, reporting to Mustafa Suleyman. Moved to Microsoft in 2024 alongside Suleyman when Microsoft acqui-hired Inflection AI. Previously at Google DeepMind where he contributed to WaveNet speech synthesis, AlphaGo Zero, and AlphaZero. Over 180,000 citations including 5 papers in Nature and Science.
PhD, Computer Vision — University of Oxford
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Works within Microsoft's responsible AI framework. Career trajectory from DeepMind to Inflection to Microsoft suggests focus on deploying AI safely at scale.
Works within Microsoft's responsible AI framework. Career trajectory from DeepMind to Inflection to Microsoft suggests focus on deploying AI safely at scale.
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Dossier last updated: 2026-03-10