Demis Hassabis#
| Membership Number: | 6673 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.deepmind.com/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2812-9917 |
| Twitter: | @demishassabis |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Co-Founder & CEO, Google DeepMind
- 2009 - 2010 Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Gatsby Unit, UCL; McGovern Institute, MIT; Dept of Psychology, Harvard
- 2005 - 2009 PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London (UCL)
- 1998 - 2005 Founder & CEO, Elixir Studios, London
- 1993 - 1998 Lead AI Programmer, Lead Designer, Bullfrog Productions; Lionhead Studios, Guildford
Fields of Scholarship
- Computer science
- Machine learning
- Deep reinforcement learning
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Artificial intelligence
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, one half awarded jointly with John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction”, the other half was awarded to David Baker “for computational protein design”
- 2023 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
- 2023 Canada Gairdner International Award
- 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- 2022 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
- 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research
- 2022 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
- 2021 IRI Medal
- 2021 International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- 2021 Royal Designer for Industry
- 2020 Pius XI Medal from Pope Francis and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- 2020 Dan David Prize Future Award for work on AI
- 2018 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 2017 Time 100 list of the world’s 100 most influential people
- 2016 Nature’s ‘top ten scientists of the year’
- 2016 WIRED’s ‘Leadership in Innovation’ award
- 2016 Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- 2014 Mullard Award of the Royal Society
- Honorary Degrees from Cambridge (2015), UCL (2016), and Imperial (2018)
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2009), Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2017), Fellow of the Royal Society (2018)
- 5-times World Games Champion at the Mind Sports Olympiad (1998-2003)
- Captained England junior chess teams, reaching master standard at 13 (2300 ELO rating), the second highest rated player in the world for his age at the time
