National Taiwan Normal University
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Researcher
Aja Huang
Google DeepMindSenior Staff Research Scientist
🇹🇼 TaiwaneseBorn 1978
Career & education
Current roleGoogle DeepMind2012-presentSenior Staff Research Scientist
Google DeepMind2012-presentPreviously
University of Alberta2011-2012Postdoc
University of Alberta2011-2012Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations46,973As of Oct 27, '26
citations-1,787Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search
With David Silver, Chris J. Maddison, Arthur Guez, Laurent Sifre, George van den Driessche, Julian Schrittwieser, Ioannis Antonoglou and others ·AlphaGo combined neural networks and search to beat a professional Go player.
Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge
With David Silver, Julian Schrittwieser, Karén Simonyan, Ioannis Antonoglou, Arthur Guez, Thomas Hubert, Lucas Baker and others ·AlphaGo Zero learned Go through self-play without examples of human games.
Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
With Oriol Vinyals, Igor Babuschkin, Wojciech Czarnecki, Michaël Mathieu, Andrew Dudzik, Junyoung Chung, David H. Choi and others ·AlphaStar reached Grandmaster level in StarCraft II through competitive AI training.
References
- AlphaGo at Google DeepMinddeepmind.google
DeepMind recounts AlphaGo’s design and its 4–1 match victory over Lee Sedol.
- Mastering the Game of Go with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Searchpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The original paper credits Huang as a co-author and explains the combination of learned board judgments and search.
- Mastering the Game of Go without Human Knowledgepubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Huang and colleagues describe how AlphaGo Zero taught itself Go by playing against itself.
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