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Oct 29, 2026 · Industry Insights

From Korean Major to Google Gemini: A Linguist's Path to Top AI Research

Shanghai International Studies University Korean major graduate Fangru Lin joined Google DeepMind's Gemini pre-training team as a research scientist after publishing first-author papers at ICML and ACL on LLM reasoning, planning, and dialect fairness, following a linguistics PhD at Oxford and internships at Microsoft and Google.