Bio
Benoit Schillings leads the Thinking, Reasoning, and Coding teams at Google DeepMind, directing foundational research toward AGI. His work focuses on advancing next-generation model reasoning and integrating software development best practices into AI code generation.
Previously, as Chief Technology Officer at X, Benoit guided early-stage teams in prototyping Alphabet's ambitious "moonshot" technologies across computing, biochemistry, and clean energy. A native of Belgium with over 30 years in Silicon Valley, he has held senior technical roles at Yahoo, Nokia, and Be.Inc., earning over 40 patents in hardware and software. Outside of pioneering new technologies, Benoit is a father of two and an avid amateur astronomer who explores the night sky using his homemade telescopes.
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Benoit Schillings is a VP at Google DeepMind (previously CTO of X, the moonshot factory). He is a co-author of the 2025 paper introducing SWE-IF / Vibe Checker, a benchmark for aligning code evaluation with human preference, and is credited in the acknowledgments of DeepMind's blogs on Gemini Deep Think reaching gold-medal performance at the 2025 IMO and ICPC World Finals. His session offers a look at how frontier reasoning models are being pushed onto real software-engineering and reasoning benchmarks.