Dzmitry Bahdanau
Dzmitry Bahdanau is an AI researcher who co-wrote a 2014 paper that introduced a method for neural machine translation models to focus on relevant parts of the input sequence. He completed an MSc in 2016 and then a PhD at Mila under Yoshua Bengio. CIFAR named him one of 29 new CIFAR AI chairs in 2021. ICLR named the paper a Test of Time runner-up in 2025. As of October 2026, he works at Periodic Labs, an AI research and deployment company.
Timeline
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2014
Attention for neural translation
In 2014, he, Kyunghyun Cho, and Yoshua Bengio write Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate, which introduces a method to focus on relevant parts of the input sequence.
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2015
A paper at ICLR 2015
In 2015, their paper appears among the papers published at ICLR 2015.
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2016
A PhD at Mila
He completes an MSc in 2016 and then a PhD at Mila under Yoshua Bengio.
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2021
A CIFAR AI chair
In 2021, CIFAR names him one of 29 new CIFAR AI chairs.
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2025
A Test of Time runner-up
In 2025, ICLR names their paper a Test of Time runner-up.
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As of October 2026
A role at Periodic Labs
As of October 2026, he works at Periodic Labs, an AI research and deployment company.
Sources and credits
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- [1409.0473] Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
- Attention Mechanism: Who Invented It and Why It Matters
- Announcing the Test of Time Award Winners from ICLR 2015 – ICLR Blog
- Group members • MINDS
- Dzmitry Bahdanau | Mila
- CIFAR NAMES 29 NEW AI CHAIRS, APPOINTING 10 MILA RESEARCHERS | Mila
- Periodic Labs
- Dzmitry Bahdanau | Digg