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

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