Demis Hassabis
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| Born | 27 July 1976 London, England |
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| Thesis | Neural processes underpinning episodic memory (2009) |
| Doctoral advisor | Eleanor Maguire |
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| Country | England |
| Title | Candidate Master |
| Years active | 1988–2019 |
| FIDE rating | 2220 (March 2019) |
| Peak rating | 2300 (January 1990) |
Sir Demis Hassabis (born 27 July 1976) is a British artificial intelligence (AI) researcher, and entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs, and a UK Government AI Adviser. In 2024, Hassabis and John M. Jumper were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their AI research contributions for protein structure prediction.
Hassabis is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and has won many prestigious awards for his research work including the Breakthrough Prize, the Canada Gairdner International Award, and the Lasker Award. In 2017 he was appointed a CBE and listed in the Time 100 most influential people list. In 2024 he was knighted for services to AI, and was listed in the Time 100 again in 2025, this time featured in one of the five covers of the printed version.