--- title: "Shakir Mohamed — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Shakir Mohamed, Google DeepMind: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2014–2015), h-index 38 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shakir-mohamed/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shakir-mohamed/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shakir Mohamed # Shakir Mohamed Shakir Mohamed has 2 papers in our library, in 2014–2015; often with [Danilo Jimenez Rezende](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danilo-jimenez-rezende/), [Daan Wierstra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daan-wierstra/). 2 papers in our library · 2014–2015 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5084530286) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1184-5776) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125890183) · [**h-index 38**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5084530286) · [81 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5084530286) · [16,772 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5084530286&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shakir-mohamed/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 797 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shakir-mohamed/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #816](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/9/#star-816) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Shakir+Mohamed) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shakir+Mohamed) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shakir+Mohamed) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shakir+Mohamed) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2012–2025 · 25 papersEmployment since 2013 · Senior Staff Scientist*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2016–2024 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**University of British Columbia** Vancouver · Canada 2012–2013 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2008–2009 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🏢**Google** London · United Kingdom 2015–2016 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-united-kingdom/) · [🎓**University of the Witwatersrand** Johannesburg · South Africa 2006–2007 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-the-witwatersrand/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Mathematics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Statistics and Probability · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/statistics-and-probability/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2015** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shakir-mohamed/year/2015/) · [**2014** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shakir-mohamed/year/2014/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Stochastic Backpropagation and Approximate Inference in Deep Generative Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rezende-2014-stochastic-backpropagation-approximate-inference-deep/)** *(2014 · 2,765 citations)* The paper addresses a long-standing difficulty with deep directed generative models: sampling from them is easy, but inferring their hidden variables efficiently has been hard. 2. **[Variational Inference with Normalizing Flows](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rezende-2015-variational-inference-normalizing-flows/)** *(2015 · 1,441 citations)* Variational inference usually relies on simple posterior families, such as mean-field or diagonal Gaussians, so the approximation can never match the true posterior. ## All works 7 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**Stochastic Backpropagation and Approximate Inference in Deep Generative Models arXiv:1401.4082**Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Shakir Mohamed, Daan Wierstra*2014 · 2,765 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rezende-2014-stochastic-backpropagation-approximate-inference-deep/) 2. **[Semi-Supervised Learning with Deep Generative Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.5298) UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) · no summary yet**Diederik P. Kingma et al.*2014 · 1,550 citations* 3. **[Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting ↗](https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adi2336) Science · no summary yet**Rémi Lam et al.*2023 · 1,493 citations* 4. [**Variational Inference with Normalizing Flows**Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Shakir Mohamed*2015 · 1,441 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rezende-2015-variational-inference-normalizing-flows/) 5. **[GraphCast: Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12794) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Rémi Lam et al.*2022 · 182 citations* 6. **[Unsupervised Predictive Memory in a Goal-Directed Agent ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10760) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Greg Wayne et al.*2018 · 140 citations* 7. **[Learning Implicit Generative Models with the Method of Learned Moments ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.11006) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Suman V. Ravuri et al.*2018 · 10 citations* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Danilo Jimenez Rezende](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danilo-jimenez-rezende/) ×2 - [Daan Wierstra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daan-wierstra/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Science - UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 797 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [48 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shakir-mohamed/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026