diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.layers.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.layers.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b93afd68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.layers.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Text;
+using Tensorflow.Layers;
+using Tensorflow.Operations.Activation;
+
+namespace Tensorflow
+{
+    public static partial class tf
+    {
+        public static class layers
+        {
+            public static Tensor conv2d(Tensor inputs,
+                int filters,
+                int[] kernel_size,
+                int[] strides = null,
+                string padding = "valid",
+                string data_format= "channels_last",
+                int[] dilation_rate = null,
+                bool use_bias = true,
+                IActivation activation = null,
+                IInitializer kernel_initializer = null)
+            {
+                if (strides == null)
+                    strides = new int[] { 1, 1 };
+                if (dilation_rate == null)
+                    dilation_rate = new int[] { 1, 1 };
+
+                var layer = new Conv2D(filters, kernel_size);
+
+                return layer.apply(inputs);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.nn.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.nn.cs
index 661717eb..65ad45b9 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.nn.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.nn.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Text;
+using Tensorflow.Operations.Activation;
 
 namespace Tensorflow
 {
@@ -9,9 +10,22 @@ namespace Tensorflow
         public static class nn
         {
             public static (Tensor, Tensor) moments(Tensor x,
-            int[] axes,
-            string name = null,
-            bool keep_dims = false) => nn_impl.moments(x, axes, name: name, keep_dims: keep_dims);
+                int[] axes,
+                string name = null,
+                bool keep_dims = false) => nn_impl.moments(x, 
+                    axes, 
+                    name: name, 
+                    keep_dims: keep_dims);
+
+            public static Tensor embedding_lookup(RefVariable @params,
+                Tensor ids,
+                string partition_strategy = "mod",
+                string name = null) => embedding_ops._embedding_lookup_and_transform(@params,
+                    ids,
+                    partition_strategy: partition_strategy,
+                    name: name);
+
+            public static IActivation relu => new relu();
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Layers/convolutional.py.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Layers/convolutional.py.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..babc761d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Layers/convolutional.py.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Text;
+using Tensorflow.Operations.Activation;
+
+namespace Tensorflow.Layers
+{
+    public class Conv2D
+    {
+        private int filters;
+        private int[] kernel_size;
+        private int[] strides;
+
+        public Conv2D(int filters,
+            int[] kernel_size,
+            int[] strides = null,
+            string padding = "valid",
+            string data_format = "channels_last",
+            int[] dilation_rate = null,
+            IActivation activation = null,
+            bool use_bias = true,
+            IInitializer kernel_initializer = null,
+            IInitializer bias_initializer = null,
+            bool trainable = true,
+            string name = null)
+        {
+
+        }
+
+        public Tensor apply(Tensor inputs)
+        {
+            throw new NotImplementedException("apply");
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/Activation/IActivation.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/Activation/IActivation.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ed7c237c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/Activation/IActivation.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Text;
+
+namespace Tensorflow.Operations.Activation
+{
+    public interface IActivation
+    {
+
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/Activation/gen_nn_ops.py.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/Activation/gen_nn_ops.py.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4ee8bd00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/Activation/gen_nn_ops.py.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Text;
+
+namespace Tensorflow.Operations.Activation
+{
+    public class relu : IActivation
+    {
+
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/OpDefLibrary.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/OpDefLibrary.cs
index 8e6bfba0..aff09b98 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/OpDefLibrary.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/OpDefLibrary.cs
@@ -364,8 +364,13 @@ namespace Tensorflow
                 object obj = propertyDescriptor.GetValue(dyn);
                 string name = propertyDescriptor.Name;
                 // avoid .net keyword
-                if (name == "_ref_")
-                    name = "ref";
+                switch (name)
+                {
+                    case "_ref_":
+                        name = "ref";
+                        break;
+                }
+                    
                 dictionary.Add(name, obj);
             }
             return dictionary;
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/array_ops.py.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/array_ops.py.cs
index 18de83dd..634278e3 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/array_ops.py.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/array_ops.py.cs
@@ -268,5 +268,9 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             return Framework.common_shapes.broadcast_shape(shape_x, shape_y);
         }
 
+        public static Tensor gather(Tensor @params, Tensor indices, string name = null, int axis = 0)
+        {
+            return gen_array_ops.gather_v2(@params, indices, axis, name: name);
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/embedding_ops.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/embedding_ops.cs
index 27fba04b..bf83e81c 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/embedding_ops.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/embedding_ops.cs
@@ -4,11 +4,45 @@ using System.Text;
 
 namespace Tensorflow
 {
-    public class embedding_ops
+    public class embedding_ops : Python
     {
-        public Tensor _embedding_lookup_and_transform()
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Helper function for embedding_lookup and _compute_sampled_logits.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="params"></param>
+        /// <param name="ids"></param>
+        /// <param name="partition_strategy"></param>
+        /// <param name="name"></param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public static Tensor _embedding_lookup_and_transform(RefVariable @params,
+                Tensor ids,
+                string partition_strategy = "mod",
+                string name = null,
+                string max_norm = null)
         {
-            throw new NotImplementedException("");
+            return with(new ops.name_scope(name, "embedding_lookup", new { @params, ids }), scope =>
+            {
+                name = scope;
+                int np = 1;
+                ids = ops.convert_to_tensor(ids, name: "ids");
+                if(np == 1)
+                {
+                    var gather = array_ops.gather(@params, ids, name: name);
+                    var result = _clip(@params, ids, max_norm);
+
+                    return array_ops.identity(result);
+                }
+
+                throw new NotImplementedException("_embedding_lookup_and_transform");
+            });
+        }
+
+        public static Tensor _clip(RefVariable @params, Tensor ids, string max_norm = null)
+        {
+            if (max_norm == null)
+                return @params;
+
+            throw new NotImplementedException("_clip");
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/gen_array_ops.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/gen_array_ops.cs
index 80884393..d86e0235 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/gen_array_ops.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/gen_array_ops.cs
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             return _op.outputs[0];
         }
 
+        public static Tensor gather_v2(Tensor @params, Tensor indices, int axis, string name = null)
+        {
+            var _op = _op_def_lib._apply_op_helper("GatherV2", name: name, new { @params, indices, axis });
+
+            return _op.outputs[0];
+        }
+
         public static Tensor greater<Tx, Ty>(Tx x, Ty y, string name = null)
         {
             var _op = _op_def_lib._apply_op_helper("Greater", name: name, args: new { x, y });
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Variables/_VariableStore.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Variables/_VariableStore.cs
index 9f067bf8..fc3768a1 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Variables/_VariableStore.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Variables/_VariableStore.cs
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             VariableSynchronization synchronization = VariableSynchronization.AUTO,
             VariableAggregation aggregation = VariableAggregation.NONE)
         {
-            bool is_scalar = shape.NDim == 0;
+            bool is_scalar = !(shape is null) && shape.NDim == 0;
 
             if (initializer is IInitializer init)
             {
diff --git a/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/TextClassification/cnn_models/VdCnn.cs b/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/TextClassification/cnn_models/VdCnn.cs
index cbdcecee..1900b8da 100644
--- a/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/TextClassification/cnn_models/VdCnn.cs
+++ b/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/TextClassification/cnn_models/VdCnn.cs
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ namespace TensorFlowNET.Examples.TextClassification
         private RefVariable global_step;
         private RefVariable embeddings;
         private Tensor x_emb;
+        private Tensor x_expanded;
 
         public VdCnn(int alphabet_size, int document_max_len, int num_class)
         {
@@ -33,11 +34,23 @@ namespace TensorFlowNET.Examples.TextClassification
             is_training = tf.placeholder(tf.boolean, new TensorShape(), name: "is_training");
             global_step = tf.Variable(0, trainable: false);
 
+            // Embedding Layer
             with(tf.name_scope("embedding"), delegate
             {
                 var init_embeddings = tf.random_uniform(new int[] { alphabet_size, embedding_size }, -1.0f, 1.0f);
                 embeddings = tf.get_variable("embeddings", initializer: init_embeddings);
-                // x_emb = tf.nn.embedding_lookup(embeddings, x);
+                x_emb = tf.nn.embedding_lookup(embeddings, x);
+                x_expanded = tf.expand_dims(x_emb, -1);
+            });
+
+            // First Convolution Layer
+            with(tf.variable_scope("conv-0"), delegate
+            {
+                var conv0 = tf.layers.conv2d(x_expanded,
+                    filters: num_filters[0],
+                    kernel_size: new int[] { filter_sizes[0], embedding_size },
+                    kernel_initializer: cnn_initializer,
+                    activation: tf.nn.relu);
             });
         }
     }