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Augustus Odena is a prominent AI researcher and entrepreneur, currently serving as a Research Scientist at Meta. He is a co-founder of Adept, an ML research and product lab, where he was responsible for the research program and contributed to the development of the first Computer Use Agents. Odena is also known for his work at Google Brain, where he invented Scratchpad and Chain-of-Thought, and has been cited over 21,000 times for his contributions to Machine Learning and Program Synthesis.
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I work on the Google Brain team. Senior Research Scientist 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos
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I worked part time at Millennium on the mortgage credit desk for two years during undergrad.
Bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree - Mathematics
Core technical and professional competencies inferred from his career in AI research and entrepreneurship.
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Program Synthesis
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Chain-of-Thought (CoT)
Scratchpad
Generative Models
AI Agents
Startup Leadership
Research Program Management
Product Vision
Team Building
Strategic Planning
Venture Capital Funding
Algorithmic Trading
Quantitative Analysis
Financial Modeling
Data-Driven Decision Making
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, LLMs, AI Agents
Venture Capital, Startup Ecosystem, Quantitative Finance
Visionary, Innovative, Entrepreneurial, Researcher, Thought Leader
Future of AI, Digital Immortality, Inference Markets, Technology
Male 65.7%, Female 34.3%
25-34 (64.5%), 35-54 (17.8%), 18-24 (12.4%)
US (13.1%), BR (11.7%), IR (8.6%), IN (7.0%)
Tehran (2.7%), Baghdad (2.2%), New York (1.5%)
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A robotic, objective summary of Augustus Odena's career focusing on his roles at Meta, Adept, and his key inventions.
Yes, he was a co-founder of Adept, an ML research and product lab, serving from December 2021 to June 2024.
While at Google Brain, he invented the Scratchpad and Chain-of-Thought methods for program synthesis.
Augustus Odena's work in Machine Learning and Program Synthesis has been cited over 21,000 times (21.3K).
Yes, he served at Amazon as a researcher for one year, from June 2024 to June 2025, before joining Meta.