David Silver

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academic artificial intelligence researcher computer scientist machine learning researcher

David Silver is a leading artificial intelligence researcher best known for his work at DeepMind on reinforcement learning and the development of the AlphaGo system.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → artificial intelligence researcher → computer scientist → machine learning researcher →
academicDegree	PhD in computer science →
citizenship	United Kingdom →
coFounded	Elixir Studios → Playfish →
doctoralAdvisor	Satinder Singh →
educatedAt	University College London → University of Cambridge NERFINISHED →
employer	Google DeepMind →
fieldOfWork	artificial intelligence → deep learning → machine learning → reinforcement learning →
hasTaughtAt	University College London →
honor	Fellow of the Royal Society →
knownFor	AlphaZero → MuZero → deep reinforcement learning → leading development of AlphaGo → reinforcement learning research → work at DeepMind →
memberOf	Royal Society →
notablePaper	Mastering Atari, Go, chess and shogi by planning with a learned model → Mastering chess and shogi by self-play with a general reinforcement learning algorithm → Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search → Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge →
notableWork	AlphaGo → AlphaGo Zero → AlphaZero → DQN-style deep reinforcement learning methods → MuZero →
position	principal research scientist at DeepMind →
publishedIn	Nature → Science →
receivedAward	ACM Prize in Computing → Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal → Royal Society Mullard Award →
researchInterest	Monte Carlo tree search → game-playing AI → model-based reinforcement learning → planning in reinforcement learning →
taughtCourse	UCL course on reinforcement learning →
thesisTopic	reinforcement learning →
worksAt	Google DeepMind →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Atari deep Q-network →	coAuthor
DeepMind →	hasKeyPerson
A3C →	introducedBy
ACM Prize in Computing →	notableRecipient