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![]() Demis Hassabis at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018 | |
Born | London, England, UK | 27 July 1976
Nationality | British |
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Thesis | Neural processes underpinning episodic memory (2009) |
Doctoral advisor | Eleanor Maguire[1] |
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Country | England |
Title | Candidate Master |
FIDE rating | 2220 (March 2019) |
Peak rating | 2300 (January 1990) |
Website | demishassabis |
Sir Demis Hassabis CBE FRS FREng FRSA[2][3] (born 27 July 1976) is a British computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. In his early career he was a video game AI programmer and designer, and an expert board games player.[4][5][6] He is the chief executive officer and co-founder of DeepMind[7] and Isomorphic Labs,[8][9][10] and a UK Government AI Advisor.[11]
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and has won many prestigious awards for his work on AlphaFold including the Breakthrough Prize, the Canada Gairdner International Award, and the Lasker Award. In 2017 he was appointed a CBE and listed in the Time 100 most influential people list. In 2024 he was knighted for services to AI.[12]
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