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Ankur Bapna is a Principal Research Scientist at Meta since July 2025, with previous roles at Google DeepMind, where Ankur held titles including Senior Staff Research Scientist and Senior Staff Software Engineer from April 2023 to July 2025. Ankur also served as a Staff Software Engineer at Google Brain from May 2022 to April 2023, and held various engineering positions at Google Research from July 2015 to May 2022, focusing on machine translation and multilingual natural language processing as well as language understanding for dialogue systems. Prior to these roles, Ankur worked as a Machine Learning Intern at Rocket Fuel Inc., developing data cleaning methods for geographical information. Ankur earned a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
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