Andrew W. Senior
Also known as A. Senior, A. W. Senior, A.W. Senior, Andrew Senior
Andrew W. Senior is a machine learning researcher whose career spans speech recognition, computer vision, protein folding and genomics. After a Cambridge PhD and speech-recognition work at LIMSI, he joined IBM Research in 1994, then moved from teaching at Columbia to Google Research in 2008. At DeepMind, he contributed to AlphaFold’s protein-structure work; he became an IEEE Fellow in 2018 and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021. As of October 2026, he works at Google DeepMind on AlphaGenome and quantum error correction.
- Now at
- Google DeepMind
- Works
- 147
- Citations
- 93,169
- h-index
- 55
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1994
A Cambridge doctorate
He completed a Cambridge PhD in 1994 with a thesis on offline cursive handwriting recognition using recurrent neural networks. Earlier, he worked on speech recognition at LIMSI at the University of Paris XI.
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1994
Building systems at IBM
He joined IBM Research in 1994 and worked on handwriting, audio-visual speech, face and fingerprint recognition, video privacy and visual tracking. His research also included computer vision.
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2008
From Columbia to Google
He taught at Columbia University in 2008, then joined Google Research and worked on speech recognition with deep neural and recurrent neural networks.
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2018
A fold and a fellowship
He worked as a machine learning researcher at DeepMind and contributed to its early AlphaFold protein-folding project. He became an IEEE Fellow in 2018.
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2020
Learning protein potentials
With DeepMind colleagues, he published a Nature paper that names AlphaFold and uses a neural network to predict distances between protein residues, then builds a potential to generate structures.
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2021
Protein structures at scale
He co-authored the AlphaFold paper that showed atomic-accuracy predictions in many cases and contributed to research applying the system at whole-proteome scale. The Royal Academy of Engineering elected him a Fellow in 2021.
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As of October 2026
Genomes and quantum codes
He works at Google DeepMind. In 2026, he co-authored an AlphaGenome study that predicts regulatory genomic tracks and variant effects from DNA, and a study of machine-learning control for quantum error correction.
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- Andrew W. Senior
- Andrew Senior's papers
- Andrew Senior's Research
- AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery
- Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
- Enabling high-accuracy protein structure prediction at the proteome scale
- Dr Andrew Senior FREng
- Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome
- Reinforcement learning control of quantum error correction