Ankur Taly

Ankur Taly is a Staff Research Scientist at Google, where he has held various roles since 2012. Here are the key points about his background and work:

Current Role at Google

• Staff Research Scientist at Google Cloud (Jul. 2020 - present)
  • Leads efforts to improve grounding and factuality of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Google Cloud
  • Manages workstreams on post-hoc evaluation, guardrails, and recipes to enable factual generation
  • Oversees human evaluations, citation generation, and auto raters for LLM quality evaluation

Previous Roles

• Head of Data Science at Fiddler Labs (May 2019 - Jul. 2020)
  • Oversaw data science efforts and drove research on explainable AI methods
• Staff Research Scientist at Google Brain (May 2016 - May 2019)
  • Developed methods like "Integrated Gradients" for attributing model predictions to input features
  • Drove adoption of explainable AI across Google, available as a Cloud product and in open-source
• Senior Research Scientist at Google (May 2014 - May 2016)
  • Worked on security and privacy models for IoT and distributed systems

Education

• Ph.D. from Stanford University (2012)
• BTech from IIT Bombay (2007)

Research Interests

• Explainability, machine learning, natural language processing, security, programming languages

Ankur Taly has published extensively in top-tier venues across these fields, with over 10,600 citations to his work.2 He has also received several awards, including an Outstanding Paper Award at the CD-MAKE conference in 2020.1