Demis Hassabis

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Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, a leading AI company acquired by Google.

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instanceOf artificial intelligence researcher
business executive
entrepreneur
human
neuroscientist
academicDegree BA in Computer Science
PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience
awardReceived Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Royal Society Fellowship
Royal Society Mullard Award
coFounded DeepMind
coFoundedWith Mustafa Suleyman
Shane Legg
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1976-07-27
doctoralAdvisor Eleanor Maguire
doctoralThesis Neural processes underlying episodic memory
educatedAt University College London
University of Cambridge NERFINISHED
employer DeepMind
Google
Google DeepMind
familyName Hassabis
fieldOfWork artificial intelligence
cognitive science
deep learning
machine learning
neuroscience
founded Elixir Studios
givenName Demis
knownFor AlphaFold
AlphaGo
AlphaZero
co-founding DeepMind
memberOf Royal Academy of Engineering
Royal Society
name Demis Hassabis
nationality British
notableAchievement led development of AlphaGo system that defeated Go champion Lee Sedol
led team that developed AlphaFold protein structure prediction system
notableWork applications of AI to protein folding
combining deep learning with reinforcement learning for game playing
research on deep reinforcement learning
research on reinforcement learning
occupation computer scientist
video game designer
placeOfBirth London
positionHeld CEO of DeepMind
co-founder of DeepMind
previousEmployer Elixir Studios
Lionhead Studios
thesisYear 2009

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