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Co-founder & CEO
Demis Hassabis co-founded DeepMind in 2010 after successful careers in academia and computer game development. A child chess prodigy, he designed and programmed the multi-million selling, award-winning game Theme Park at the age of 17. After graduating from Cambridge University, he founded pioneering videogames firm Elixir Studios and completed a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at UCL. The journal Science listed his research on imagination and memory as one of 2007’s top ten breakthroughs. Demis is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Arts. In 2017 he featured in the Time 100 list of most influential people, and in 2018 he was awarded a CBE for services to science and technology.
Demis is also Founder and CEO of Isomorphic Labs.
Shane Legg
Co-founder & Chief Scientist
Shane Legg and Demis first met at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London, while studying the brain’s algorithmic organisation. Their shared curiosity in AI’s potential to positively impact society later became the founding idea for DeepMind. Shane is a celebrated computer scientist and holds a PhD from IDSIA (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research) in Switzerland, where he was supervised by Professor Marcus Hutter, the leading authority on theoretical models of super intelligent machines. Shane’s doctoral thesis on universal artificial intelligence was awarded the Canadian Singularity Institute research prize in 2008.
Lila Ibrahim
Chief Operating Officer
Lila blends technical expertise with creative leadership in her role as DeepMind’s COO . Originally a microprocessor engineer, she has helped grow some of the world's leading technology companies including Intel, where she held a series of global roles, venture firm Kleiner Perkins and Coursera, where she was the first executive hire and helped bring education to millions of people around the world. At DeepMind, Lila oversees both technology and organisational infrastructure including Engineering , Operations, and People . She is the co-founder and Chair of education technology non-profit Team4Tech and has previously served on the Board of Gannett, helping it become the largest US print media company. Her exceptional impact has been recognised by a Henry Crown Fellowship from the Aspen Institute and the Anita Borg Institute Award for Social Impact.
Koray Kavukcuoglu
Vice President of Research
Koray is one of the world's foremost experts in deep learning . As Vice President of Research, he oversees and coordinates the work of our international team of research scientists and engineers. He previously led the deep-learning team at DeepMind, where he pioneered algorithmic breakthroughs including DQN , IMPALA and WaveNet , which powers the voice of the Google Assistant for millions of users around the world. Before joining DeepMind, Koray was a researcher at NEC Labs America . He holds a masters in aerospace engineering and a PhD in computer science from NYU, where he was part of Yann LeCun’s group within the Computational and Biological Learning Lab working on unsupervised learning and deep learning.
Colin Murdoch
Chief Business Officer
Decades of international commercial experience and deep technical expertise mean Colin is uniquely placed to ensure DeepMind’s cutting-edge research benefits as many people as possible. As Chief Business Officer, he oversees a wide-range of teams including Applied , which applies research breakthroughs to Google products and infrastructure used by billions of people. He also helps drive the growth of DeepMind, building and leading critical functions including finance and strategy and leading external and commercial partnerships. Originally an electronics and software engineer, he has held senior positions at both start-ups and global companies such as Thomson Reuters, helping them solve their own complex, mission-critical, real-world challenges.
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