David Silver (computer scientist)

David Silver
Born1976 (age 4849)
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
InstitutionsGoogle Deepmind
University College London
Elixir Studios
ThesisReinforcement learning and simulation-based search in computer Go (2009)
Websitewww.davidsilver.uk

David Silver (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.