Stefania Druga

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Research Scientist at Sakana.ai, where she works on novel AI architectures beyond the transformer.

Official Bio

Stefania Druga is a Research Scientist at Sakana AI in Tokyo, Japan, focused on new model architectures and long-running AI systems. At AI Engineer World's Fair 2026, she is scheduled on the Memory & Continual Learning Main Stage for “Memory Harnesses for Long-Running Research Agents,” connecting her current Sakana.ai work with practical questions around agent memory, research workflows, and continual learning. Previously, she worked at Google DeepMind on novel multimodal AI applications and completed a Ph.D. in Creative AI Literacies at the University of Washington Information School.

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