The 14 most impressive AI scientists working at Google DeepMind

Publications: 3

Official job title: Software Engineer

Confirmation: LinkedIn

Interesting fact: Ioannis Antonoglou joined DeepMind in 2012 after graduating from the University of Edinburgh with a masters degree in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Publications: 3

Official job title: Research Scientist

Confirmation: Blog

Interesting fact: Prior to joining DeepMind, just nine months ago, Martin Riedmiller worked on robotics and autonomous learning systems at the University of Freiberg in Germany.

Publications: 4

Official job title: Head of Applied AI

Confirmation: LinkedIn

Interesting fact: Mustafa Suleyman dropped out of Oxford University at the age of 19 to set up a counselling service known as the Muslim Youth Helpline. He also worked as a policy officer for the former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone.

Publications: 3

Official job title: Cofounder and Senior Staff Research Scientist

Confirmation: LinkedIn

Interesting fact: Shane Legg used to be DeepMind's Chief Science Officer but when Google bought the company he became a research scientist.

Publications: 3

Official job title: Research Scientist

Confirmation: Personal website

Interesting fact: Charles Blundell holds a PhD in machine learning from University College London (UCL) and a masters in engineering in computer systems and software engineering from York University.

Publications: 4

Official job title: Research Scientist

Confirmation: LinkedIn

Interesting fact: Danilo Rezende has a certificate from online learning institution Udacity for his work on "Artificial Intelligence for Robotics: Programming A Robotic Car".

Publications: 4

Official job title: Research Scientist

Confirmation: Personal website

Interesting fact: Shakir completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge with Zoubin Ghahramani, head of the Machine Learning department.

Publications: 4

Official job title: VP of Engineering

Confirmation: LinkedIn

Interesting fact: Demis Hassabis is a child prodigy in chess, reaching master standard at the age of 13 with an Elo rating of 2300 (at the time the second highest rated player in the world Under-14 after Judit Polgár who had a rating of 2335, and is 4 days older than Hassabis). He's also highly skilled in many other games, including poker.

Publications: 5

Official job title: Research Scientist

Confirmation: Personal website

Interesting fact: On his website, Marc Bellemare writes that he focuses on "reinforcement learning" and in particular "representation learning, value function approximation, model learning, exploration, and all those other concepts that we feel are necessary to the development of generally competent agents."

Publications: 6

Official job title: Research Scientist

Confirmation: CrunchBase

Interesting fact: Alex Graves has also worked with Google AI guru Geoff Hinton on neural networks.

Publications: 6

Official job title: Research Scientist

Confirmation: Personal website

Interesting fact: Joel Veness writes on his website that he is "interested in the algorithmic and computational aspects of Artificial Intelligence, with a particular emphasis on scalable and efficient approaches for online Reinforcement Learning agents."

Publications: 8

Official job title: Research Scientist

Confirmation: Academic website

Interesting fact: Vlad Minh completed a PhD in machine learning at the University of Toronto working under the supervision of Google AI guru Geoffrey Hinton.

Publications: 8

Official job title: Research Scientist

Confirmation: LinkedIn

Interesting fact: Koray Kavukcuoglu interned for Google in New York in the summer of 2010 for three months. He also holds a PhD from New York University where he worked on "unsupervised learning of feature extractors and multi-stage architectures for object recognition."

Publications: 10

Official job title: Unknown

Confirmation: Academic website

Profile: David Silver holds a BA Hounors degree in Computing Science and an MA in Computing Science from the University of Cambridge. He also holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Alberta.

He is a Royal Society University Research Fellow that now carries out research at University College London alongside his duties at Google DeepMind.

He has contributed to many research efforts, with 29 publications listed on his personal website. A full list of all the applications he’s built can be found here