I am a Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, London, where I work in the Gemini team on pre-training. I was a core contributor on Gemini 1.0, Gemini 1.5 and Gemini 2.0. I advised on Veo and Gemma 2.
I completed my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Oxford on the topic of (Bayesian) Machine Learning. My supervisors were Yarin Gal and Yee Whye Teh.
My first name is pronounced Yoast (like 'toast' with a y) and my last name is a city in the Netherlands. You can reach me at [email protected].
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