ANNA POTAPENKO

Senior Research Engineer

@ Google DeepMind

Anna is a Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind (GDM), working on a range of language and bioinformatics problems. Most recently, Anna has been part of the interdisciplinary team of researchers who developed AlphaFold -- the protein structure prediction system that received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024. 

Prior to Google DeepMind, Anna obtained PhD in Natural Language Processing, where she worked on probabilistic topic modelling and early versions of neural text embeddings. She graduated from Moscow State University, followed by an internship with Prof. Thomas Hofmann at ETH Zürich.