HiReyDemis Hassabis
Co-founder and Chair of Google DeepMind; Chief Scientist at Alphabet
About
Demis Hassabis co-founded Google DeepMind and works on AI for scientific discovery.
Previously, Demis founded Elixir Studios and held a postdoctoral research fellowship.
Demis studied computer science at Cambridge and cognitive neuroscience at UCL.
Experience
- Google DeepMindCo-founder and Chair
- AlphabetChief Scientist
- Gatsby Unit, UCLWellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow2009 – 2010
McGovern Institute, MITWellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow2009 – 2010
Dept of Psychology, HarvardWellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow2009 – 2010
- Elixir StudiosFounder & CEO1998 – 2005
- Bullfrog Productions; Lionhead StudiosLead AI Programmer, Lead Designer1993 – 1998
Education
- University College London (UCL)PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience2005 – 2009
- Queens’ CollegeUndergraduate study in Computer Science
At a glance
Developed AlphaGo, which defeated a Go world champion
Shared the 2024 Chemistry Nobel for protein structure prediction
Wrote the game Theme Park
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Work
www.cst.cam.ac.uk · 2026-11-12
- Co-founded DeepMind in 2010.
- Was CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind.
- Google acquired DeepMind in 2014.
www.nobelprize.org · 2026-11-12
- Worked on AI for commercial computer games before DeepMind.
- Uses games as a test bed for AI learning systems.
Projects
www.cst.cam.ac.uk · 2026-11-12
- Developed AlphaGo, which defeated Go world champion Lee Sedol.
- AlphaFold2 was declared to have solved the protein structure prediction challenge by CASP in November 2020.
- DeepMind made AlphaFold2 and its protein structure predictions freely available.
www.nobelprize.org · 2026-11-12
- Wrote the game Theme Park.
Education
- Received honorary degrees from Cambridge in 2015, UCL in 2016, and Imperial in 2018.
Recognition
- Shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John M. Jumper for protein structure prediction.
- Received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award in 2023.
- Received the Canada Gairdner International Award in 2023.
- Received the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2023.
- Received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2022.
- Received the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research in 2022.
- Received the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences in 2022.
- Received the IRI Medal in 2021.
- Became an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2021.
- Was named Royal Designer for Industry in 2021.
- Received the Pius XI Medal in 2020.
- Received the Dan David Prize Future Award for work on AI in 2020.
- Was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2018.
- Was named to the Time 100 list in 2017.
- Received the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal in 2016.
- Received the Royal Society's Mullard Award in 2014.
- Was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2009.
- Was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2017.
- Was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018.
- Was elected to Academia Europaea in 2023.
- Became an International Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
- Was a five-time World Games Champion at the Mind Sports Olympiad.
Views
www.nobelprize.org · 2026-11-12
- Aims to build AI algorithms applicable to scientific problems such as protein folding.
Interests
www.nobelprize.org · 2026-11-12
- Has explored artificial general intelligence and its potential applications in science.
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