Edward Grefenstette is a Franco-(British)-American computer scientist, and serves as Director of Reseach at Google DeepMind, and as an Honorary Professor at UCL.

He previously was Head of Machine Learning at Cohere a research scientist at Cohere, before which he was at Research Scientist and RL Area Lead at Facebook AI Research, preceded by gus time as a Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind, following a (short) period as the CTO of Dark Blue Labs, which he also co-founded.

Prior to his move to industry, he was working at the University of Oxford's Department of Computer Science, and was a Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College.