David Silver (computer scientist)

David Silver
Born1976 (age 47–48)
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA)
University of Alberta (PhD)
Known forAlphaGo
AlphaZero
AlphaStar
AwardsRoyal Society University Research Fellowship (2011)
ACM Prize in Computing (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence
Machine learning
Reinforcement learning
Planning
Computer Games[1]
InstitutionsGoogle Deepmind
University College London
Elixir Studios
ThesisReinforcement learning and simulation-based search in computer Go (2009)
Websitewww.davidsilver.uk Edit this at Wikidata

David Silver FRS (born 1976) is a principal research scientist at Google DeepMind and a professor at University College London. He has led research on reinforcement learning with AlphaGo, AlphaZero and co-lead on AlphaStar.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b David Silver publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Oriol Vinyals; Igor Babuschkin; Wojciech M Czarnecki; et al. (30 October 2019). "Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning". Nature. 575 (7782): 350–354. doi:10.1038/S41586-019-1724-Z. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 31666705. Wikidata Q72988805.