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Demis Hassabis
Co-founding DeepMind and advancing protein-structure prediction with AlphaFold.
AlphaGo · AlphaFold2
- Born
- 27 July 1976
- Birthplace
- London, United Kingdom
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Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis is a British AI researcher and entrepreneur who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Early life
Chess and games
Excelled at chess and began programming young.
Education
Studied computer science at Cambridge and neuroscience at UCL.
Career
- 1990s
Game development
Worked on games including Theme Park and founded Elixir Studios.
- 2000s
Neuroscience
Researched memory and imagination.
- 2010 onward
DeepMind
Co-founded the AI laboratory and guided research including AlphaGo and AlphaFold.
Research & projects
AlphaGo
DeepMind’s system defeated Lee Sedol in a landmark Go match.
AlphaFold2
The team achieved a major advance in protein-structure prediction.
Nobel Prize
Shared the protein-prediction half of the chemistry prize with John Jumper.
Beyond work
Interdisciplinary approach
Has connected interests in games, brains and machine learning.
Scientific access
DeepMind and EMBL-EBI made predicted protein structures widely accessible.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Nobel Prize: protein structure prediction ↗Photo: John Sears. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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