Karsten Roth

Research Scientist - Gemma! @ Google DeepMind. ELLIS PhD, prev Meta AI, Amazon, Vector, Mila.

Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind; working on post-training & multimodal models. Recently completed my IMPRS-IS & ELLIS PhD Student with Zeynep Akata (TU Munich) & Oriol Vinyals (Google DeepMind) summa cum laude. Ex. Meta AI, Amazon, Mila, Vector. In a past life: Physics Bachelor & Master from Heidelberg University.

Experience

  • Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
    Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    Core Gemma, Multimodal / Post-Training

  • Doctoral Student at ELLIS - European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems
    May 2021 - Aug 2025 · 4 yrs 4 mos

    PhD Advisors: Zeynep Akata (University of Tuebingen) and Oriol Vinyals (Deepmind). Making models generalize better. Topics: Continual Learning & Pretraining, OOD Generalization, Contrastive Learning, Multimodal Foundation Models.

  • Student Researcher at Google DeepMind
    Apr 2024 - Nov 2024 · 8 mos

    Research intern & ELLIS PhD Exchange. Working on Multimodal Foundation Models.

  • AI Research Scientist Intern at Meta
    May 2022 - Oct 2022 · 6 mos

    Theoretical machine learning research on disentangled representation learning.

  • Applied Science Intern at Amazon
    Oct 2020 - Mar 2021 · 6 mos

    Research internship in the AWS Lablet team in Tübingen working on anomaly detection. Developed the current standard for industrial anomaly detection (PatchCore).