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Researcher

Graham Taylor

Also known as G.W. Taylor, GRAHAM W. TAYLOR, Graham W Taylor, Graham W. Taylor

Graham Taylor is a deep-learning researcher whose work applies multimodal AI to biodiversity. After a computer science PhD at Toronto in 2009 and a postdoctoral role at NYU, he joined Guelph in 2012. He co-founded Kindred, served as Research Director at Vector, and coauthored BIOSCAN-5M and CLIBD, which connect insect images, DNA barcodes and taxonomic labels for machine-learning classification. As of October 2026, he is a Guelph professor who leads its Machine Learning Research Group and co-directs CARE-AI.

Works
220
Citations
16,192
h-index
47
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2009

    A Toronto PhD and NYU postdoc

    He earns a computer science PhD at the University of Toronto in 2009 under Geoffrey Hinton and Sam Roweis. He spends two years as a postdoc at NYU's Courant Institute, working with Chris Bregler, Rob Fergus, and Yann LeCun.

  2. 2012

    Joining Guelph's engineering school

    In 2012, he joins the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph as an Assistant Professor.

  3. 2016

    A CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar

    In 2016, he becomes one of 18 inaugural CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars.

  4. 2017–2020

    Co-founding Kindred

    He co-founds Kindred, which MIT Technology Review includes on its 2017 list of smartest companies; Ocado acquires the company in 2020.

  5. 2018–2019

    Google Brain Visiting Faculty

    From 2018 to 2019, he serves as Visiting Faculty at Google Brain in Montreal. In 2019, he becomes a Canada CIFAR AI Chair.

  6. 2021–2023

    Vector Research Director

    He serves as interim Research Director at Vector from August 2021, takes the full Research Director role in September 2022, and steps down at the end of 2023 to focus on research at Guelph.

  7. 2024–2025

    BIOSCAN-5M and CLIBD

    In 2024, he coauthors the BIOSCAN-5M dataset paper, which describes a multimodal dataset of over 5 million insect specimens. In 2025, he coauthors CLIBD, which aligns images, DNA barcodes and taxonomic labels in a shared embedding space for zero-shot insect classification.

  8. As of October 2026

    Leading a Guelph AI group

    He is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning at Guelph, and co-directs CARE-AI. He leads the Machine Learning Research Group, whose deep-learning methods span vision, DNA and language, graph neural networks, and uncertainty quantification.

Career

  1. Since 2012University of GuelphAssistant Professor
  2. 2021–2023Vector InstituteInterim Research Director, Research Director
  3. 2018–2019Google BrainVisiting Faculty
  4. 2018–2023CIFAR
  5. 2017–2020KindredCo-founder
  6. 2010–2012Courant Institute of Mathematical SciencesPostdoctoral researcher
  7. 2010–2012New York University

Education

  1. 2009University of TorontoPhD

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Videos

YouTube videos in which Graham Taylor speaks or appears, newest first. A model chose them from YouTube search results. List updated 21 October 2026.

  1. Learning to Learn, and other Opportunities in Machine Learning with Graham Taylor - #62The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington · 2 November 2017 · 39 min

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  1. 11% of AI doctorate holders from 2010 to 2016 founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduationIncludes Graham Taylor. We estimate how often AI doctorate holders founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduation, how waiting times compare between founders and top jobs, and which universities trained the most.
  2. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Includes Google. Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.
  3. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Google. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.
  4. 20% of people at companies who shape AI also hold a university role, led by Google and Stanford UniversityIncludes Google. We estimate that 539 of the 6,766 people with a known current organization (8%) hold both a university role and a company role, including 20% of people at companies and 13% of people at universities.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. About — Graham Taylor gwtaylor.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Graham Taylor - Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence vectorinstitute.ai. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Graham Taylor named Vector Research Director - Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence vectorinstitute.ai. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. BIOSCAN-5M: A Multimodal Dataset for Insect Biodiversity proceedings.neurips.cc. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. CLIBD: Bridging Vision and Genomics for Biodiversity Monitoring at Scale proceedings.iclr.cc. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Graham W. Taylor | University of Guelph uoguelph.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Graham Taylor — Machine Learning Research Group, University of Guelph gwtaylor.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.