Work Experience
Senior Staff Research Engineer
Senior Staff Research Engineer
Senior Staff Research Engineer / Google DeepMind
Alexey Kurakin is a Senior Staff Research Engineer at Google DeepMind, specializing in the security and privacy of machine learning, large language models (LLMs), and differential privacy. He has a long tenure at Google, previously working as a Research Software Engineer at Google Brain, where he focused on fundamental research and applications in machine learning. Kurakin is a prolific researcher, publishing papers at top machine learning conferences like NeurIPS, ICLR, and ICML, and is highly cited in the field.
Senior Staff Research Engineer
Senior Staff Research Engineer
Staff Research Engineer
I work on differential privacy, synthetic data and language models. Staff Research Engineer
Staff Research Engineer
Security, privacy and machine learning. Staff Research Engineer May 2019 - Apr 2023 · 4 yrs
Senior Research Engineer
I'm working as a research engineer at Google Brain. I'm involved both in fundamental research and its applications.
I publish at the top machine learning conferences (NeurIPS/NIPS, ICLR, ICML). See my Google Scholar profile for full list of publications: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nCh4qyMAAAAJ Senior Research Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
I was building scalable backend for Google MyMaps [www.google.com/mymaps] and other map products. Senior Software Engineer Nov 2014 - Feb 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos
Software Engineer
I was building scalable backend for Google MyMaps [www.google.com/mymaps] and other map products. Software Engineer Jan 2013 - Oct 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos
Software Engineer Intern
Develop and test part of the ads backend which displays sponsored storied in Facebook news feed.

Research consultant
Worked on the mobile robot visual navigation and odometry.
Research Intern
Worked on hand gesture recognition project with Kinect sensor. Developed a complete framework for dynamic hand gesture recognition which works American Sign Language gestures.
Published paper: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/21f8/bc079d10884dd7add65bd3350e45b5fa31b1.pdf

Research consultant
Developed a system for object detection in the video from pan-tilt-zoom camera.
Ph.D.
Ph.D. - Computer Science
M.Sc.
M.Sc. - Applied math and physics
B.Sc.
B.Sc. - Applied math and physics

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32683+ citations
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Differential Privacy
Alexey Kurakin is a highly cited Research Engineer specializing in the security, privacy, and robustness of machine learning systems, with a focus on adversarial examples and differential privacy in large language models.
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Pattern Recognition
Security
Privacy
Differential Privacy
Adversarial Examples
Responsible AI
C++
Python
Java
C#
Matlab
Software Engineering
Algorithms
Distributed Systems
Alexey Kurakin is an expert in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Deep Learning, with a background in Software Engineering.
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Deep Learning
Software Engineering