Stanford spotlights Kristina Toutanova, BERT co-author now at Google DeepMind
stanfordnlp · x · 2026-11-01
Stanford NLP highlights a profile of Kristina Toutanova, co-author of BERT and research scientist at Google DeepMind, who also serves as affiliate assistant professor at the University of Washington.
Career path: PhD at Stanford under Christopher Manning (2005), then Microsoft Research, joining Google AI Language in 2017. Her work spans representation learning, question answering, semantic parsing, and knowledge base completion; she is a past co-editor-in-chief of TACL. BERT's code and pretrained models are open-sourced under Apache 2.0.
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